Southumbrians
The Southumbrians or 'Suðanhymbre' were the
Wulfhere
, the Mercian King, implies that Southumbria was a sub-kingdom of Mercia.
More generally, Southumbria is used by modern historians to refer conveniently to all of Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber estuary not in Northumbria, especially in the period before England was unified.
References
- ^ Blair, P. Hunter, "The Northumbrians and their Southern Frontier", Archaeologia Aeliana, fourth series, 26 (1948), pp. 98-126