The 'Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy', as first mapped in Lambarde's Archaionomia, 1568, via https://www.johnfoxe.org/index.php?realm=more&type=image …pic.twitter.com/fkCcTBk698
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(trans. Diana Greenaway, _Historia Anglorum: The History of the English People_, Oxford 1996: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=O6U5BTD0-rYC&pg=PA17#v=onepage&q&f=false … )
Intriguingly, however, Harun Ibn Yahya may have earliest ref in his account of Britain c.900 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=snPnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/mFYiuIHBu7
@m39618462 When he wrote, smaller kingdoms extinguished---depends when his info derived from! Never actually a 'heptarchy' as such tho'!
@m39618462 Ah, no worries---multiple kingdoms in 7th-9thC, incl Mercia, Lindsey, Kent, East Anglia, Essex, Sussex, Bernicia, Deira etc!
@caitlinrgreen I find it astonishing that the idea of the Heptarchy still has any traction. Clearly more about the Biblical 7 than reality
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