Stoppingas

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The Stoppingas was a tribe or clan of

Anglo-Saxon England. Their domain was Wootton Wawen and the valley of the River Alne in modern-day Warwickshire.[1] The name of the tribe may have come from the personal name Stoppa, who could have been the tribe's founder or leader, or earliest common ancestor.[2]

The Stoppingas formed part of the Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce, which was later conquered and absorbed by the kingdom of Mercia.[3]

In the mid eighth century

King Oshere of the Hwicce, for the purpose of establishing a Minster in the territory. Such an institution was subsequently built at Wootton Wawen, and the later parochia of this minster probably represents the extent territory of the Stoppingas.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hooke 2005, p. 163
  2. ^ Yorke 1995, p. 42
  3. ^ Kirby 2000, p. 9
  4. ^ Hines 2003, p. 34

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