Saxon Viking Medieval

My Loved Ones Tree Has Been Traced Back Towards The Early Kings Of England From The 7th. Century AD. This Gives Me An Interest In English History Which Is Excellent Enjoyable

My household tree has been traced back towards the early Kings of England from the 7th. Century AD. This gives me an interest in English History which is excellent fun to research. As I’m a direct descendent of Sir Christopher Wren I have been interested in English history and researching enjoyable and exciting bits of England including Counties and Shires.
1066 AD – Lancashire wasn’t formed when the Normans came over in 1066, whereas most of the other English counties were around by then.When folks say “the old items are the best” they’re naturally not thinking about Lancashire because it’s among the newest of all English counties – if you can deal with one thing that is over eight centuries old becoming described as new! Lancashire wasn’t formed when the Normans came over in 1066, whereas the majority of the other English counties were about by then.
cThe county boundaries were fairly static through the 16th century.
In most situations the counties or Shires in medieval occasions were administered by a Sheriff (originally “shire- reeve”) on behalf of the monarch. Each and every shire was responsible for gathering taxes for the central government; for local defence; and for justice, via assize courts.
Southern England
In southern England the counties were mostly subdivisions of the Kingdom of Wessex, and in many locations represented annexed, previously independent, kingdoms or other tribal territories. Kent derives from the Kingdom of Kent, and Essex, Sussex and Middlesex come from the East Saxons, South Saxons and Middle Saxons. Norfolk and Suffolk were subdivisions representing the “North Folk” and “South Folk” of the Kingdom of East Anglia. Only one county on the south coast of England now generally takes the suffix “-shire”, Hampshire, that is named soon after the former town of “Hamwic” the website of that is now a component of the city of Southampton. A “lost” Saxon county was Winchcombeshire which lasted from 1007 to 1017 before being incorporated into Gloucestershire.
Dorset and Somerset derive their names from the saete or inhabitants of the areas around the towns of Dorchester and Somerton respectively; the names had been very first utilized by the Saxons inside the 9th century. Devon and Cornwall were based on the pre-Saxon Celtic kingdoms identified in Latin as Dumnonia and Cornubia.
The City of London was recognised as a county of itself separate from Middlesex by Henry I’s charter of c.1131.Quite a few other boroughs within the area had been constituted counties corporate by royal charter. Bristol developed as a main port in the medieval period, straddling both sides of the River Avon which formed the ancient boundary in between Gloucestershire and Somerset. In 1373, Edward III decreed
…that the mentioned town of Bristol with its suburbs and their precinct, as the boundaries now exist, henceforward shall be separated and exempt in every way from the mentioned counties of Gloucester and Somerset, on land and by water; that it shall be a county in itself and be referred to as the county of Bristol for ever.
Comparable arrangements were later applied to Norwich (1404), Southampton (1447), Canterbury (1471), Gloucester (1483), Exeter (1537), and Poole (1571).
Midlands
When Wessex conquered Mercia in the 9th and 10th centuries, it subdivided the area into a variety of shires of roughly equal size and tax-raising potential or hidage. These usually took the name of the main town (the county town) of the county, together with “-shire”. Examples of these include Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. In some instances the original names have been worn down — for instance, Cheshire was originally “Chestershire”.
Within the east Midlands, it is thought that county boundaries may represent a 9th century division of the Danelaw between units of the Danish army. Rutland was an anomalous territory or soke, associated with Nottinghamshire, however it ultimately became deemed the smallest county. Lincolnshire was the successor towards the Kingdom of Lindsey, and took on the territories of Kesteven and Holland when Stamford became the only Danelaw borough to fail to turn out to be a county town.

AB_pos = “intext”;
AB_lang = “en”;
AB_cat_channel = “8695717077, “;
AB_path = “http://d21j60o022fwiu.cloudfront.net/”;
document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’http://d21j60o022fwiu.cloudfront.net/gads/controller3.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
//–>

google_ad_channel = “7940249670, ” + AB_cat_channel + AB_unit_channel;
google_language = “en”;
google_ad_region = ‘test’;

Charters were granted constituting the boroughs or cities of Lincoln (1409), Nottingham (1448), Lichfield (1556) and Worcester (1622) as counties. The County of the City of Coventry was separated from Warwickshire in 1451, and included an extensive region of countryside surrounding the city.
The border with Wales was not set till the Laws in Wales Act 1535 — this remains the contemporary border. At the time of the Domesday Book, some parts of what later became Wales had been accounted as parts of English counties; Monmouth, by way of example, was included in Herefordshire, and also the ancient town of Ludlow, now in Shropshire, was also included in Herefordshire. Parts of the March of Wales which right after the Norman conquest had been administered by Marcher Lords largely independently of the English monarch, were incorporated into the English counties of Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in 1535.
Northern England
A lot of Northumbria was also shired, the very best recognized of these counties getting Hallamshire and Cravenshire. The Normans didn’t use these divisions, and so they are not typically regarded as historic counties. The huge county of Yorkshire was a successor to the Viking Kingdom of York, and in the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it was deemed to contain what was to grow to be northern Lancashire, at the same time as parts of Cumberland, and Westmorland. The majority of the later Cumberland and Westmorland had been under Scottish rule till 1092. Right after the Norman Conquest in 1066 as well as the harrying of the North, much of the North of England was left depopulated and was included in the returns for Cheshire and Yorkshire inside the Domesday Book. Nevertheless, there’s some disagreement about the status of some of this land. The location in between the River Ribble as well as the River Mersey, referred to as “Inter Ripam et Mersam” inside the Domesday Book,was included inside the returns for Cheshire. Whether this meant that this land was truly part of Cheshire is even so not clear. Furthermore, the Domesday book included as portion of Cheshire, areas that later became portion of Wales, including the two hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan, along with the southern portion of Duddestan Hundred (as it was called the time), which later became called Maelor Saesneg, and (later nonetheless) “Flintshire Detached” (see Flintshire (historic). The Northeast, or Northumbria, land that later became County Durham and Northumberland, was left unrecorded.
Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, County Durham and Northumberland had been established as counties within the 12th century. Lancashire may be firmly dated to 1182. Part of the domain of the Bishops of Durham, Hexhamshire was split off and was considered an independent county until 1572, when it became component of Northumberland.
Charters granting separate county status to the cities and boroughs of Chester (1238/9), York (1396), Newcastle upon Tyne (1400) and Kingston-upon-Hull (using the surrounding area of Hullshire) (1440). In 1551 Berwick upon Tweed, on the border with Scotland, was developed a county corporate.
English Counties and Some Towns and Cities.
1. Bedfordshire (Bedford, Luton, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Biggleswade, Sandy)two. Berkshire (Reading, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, Windsor, Wokingham, Abingdon)3. Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury, Milton Keynes, Slough, Buckingham, High Wycombe)four. Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, Wisbech, Ely, March, Whittlesey, Chatteris, Linton)five. Cheshire (Chester, Stockport, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Crewe)6. Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro, Camborne, Redruth, St. Austell, Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay)7. Cumberland (Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington, Penrith, Keswick, Brampton)8. Derbyshire (Derby, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Swadlincote, Buxton, Matlock, Ashbourne)9. Devon (Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Paignton, Barnstaple, Tiverton, Newton Abbot, Tavistock)10. Dorset (Dorchester, Poole, Weymouth, Sherborne, Wimborne Minster, Shaftesbury)11. Durham (Durham, Sunderland, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, Hartlepool, Gateshead, Washington)12. Essex (Chelmsford, Basildon, Romford, Southend, Colcheter, Harlow, Brentwood, West Ham)13. Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Bristol, Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, Tewkesbury)14. Hampshire (Winchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Basingstoke, Newport)15. Herefordshire (Hereford, Ross-on-Wye, Leominster, Ledbury, Bromyard, Kington)16. Hertfordshire (Hertford, Watford, St. Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Hatfield)17. Huntingdonshire (Huntingdon, St. Ives, St. Neots, Ramsey, Yaxley)18. Kent (Maidstone, Canterbury, Bromley, Rochester, Margate, Folkestone, Dover, Greenwich)19. Lancashire (Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Bolton, Warrington, Barrow-in-Furness)20. Leicestershire (Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Melton Mowbray, Coalville, Lutterworth)21. Lincolnshire (Lincoln, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Boston, Grantham, Stamford, Skegness, Louth)22. Middlesex (City of London, Harrow, Enfield, Staines, Ealing, Potters Bar, Westminster )23. Norfolk (Norwich, Wonderful Yarmouth, King’s Lynn, Dereham, Cromer, Hunstanton)24. Northamptonshire (Northampton, Peterborough, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough)25. Northumberland (Alnwick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Morpeth, Hexham, Berwick-upon-Tweed)26. Nottinghamshire (Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark, Retford, Southwell)27. Oxfordshire (Oxford, Banbury, Witney, Bicester, Henley-on-Thames, Carterton, Thame)28. Rutland (Oakham, Uppingham. Cottesmore)29. Shropshire (Shrewsbury, Telford, Oswestry, Bridgnorth, Whitchurch, Marketplace Drayton, Ludlow)30. Somerset (Taunton, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury)31. Staffordshire (Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Lichfield)32. Suffolk (Ipswich, Bury St. Edmunds, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Sudbury, Haverhill, Bungay)33. Surrey (Guildford, Croydon, Woking, Sutton, Kingston-on-Thames, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Brixton)34. Sussex (Chichester, Brighton, Worthing, Crawley, Hastings, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis, Horsham)35. Warwickshire (Warwick, Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon)36. Westmorland (Appleby, Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside, Kirkby Lonsdale)37. Wiltshire (Trowbridge, Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Warminster)38. Worcestershire (Worcester, Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Malvern, Evesham)39. Yorkshire. Parts of Yorhire are divided into ‘Ridings’.North Riding (Northallerton, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Whitby)East Riding (Beverley, Hull, Bridlington, Driffield, Hornsea, Filey)West Riding (Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Halifax, Harrogate)York (inside the Walls).
Please pay a visit to my Funny Animal Art Prints Collection @ http://www.fabprints.com
My other site is known as Directory of British Icons: http://fabprints.webs.com
The Chinese call Britain ‘The Island of Hero’s’ which I feel sums up what we British are all about. We British are inquisitive and competitive and are always looking over the horizon to the subsequent adventure and discovery.
Copyright © 2010 Paul Hussey. All Rights Reserved.



English Cricket History – 900 AD to Present Day
for more on binding kingston and  lithographic print surrey and print kingston see our website

Smooth Copper Penannular $55.00 Smooth Copper Penannular Size: 3″ Diameter Hand forged one at a time of solid copper. Traditional Viking Cloak / Cape Pennanular/ Brooch. This pin will last a lifetime…

Medieval: Total War Gold Edition $10.99 Spectacular Epic 3D Total War BattlesProduct InformationMedieval: Total War is a game of empire building and epic real time battles. Encompassing four centuries of warfare from the first Crusade in 1095 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Rule your kingdom through four centuries of brutal Medieval warfare.  Laysiege to mighty fortresses and command vast armies across the battlefi…

‘Harold’ The Last of The Saxon Kings [Illustrated] $0.99 Harold Godwinson, (1022 – October 14, 1066 A.D.) also known as Harold II, is widely regarded as the last Anglo-Saxon King of England before the Norman Conquest. Harold reigned from January 5 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October of that same year, fighting the Norman invaders, led by William the Conqueror….

The Heimskringla – A History of the Norse Kings ( annotated and Illustrated edition) $0.99 This is a Kindle book version with interactive table of contents of the more than 1000 pages prestige edition, unabridged, of “Heimskringla – The History of the Norse Kings”, with splendide gravures from paintings by Th. Wegener, Asbj. Knutsen, A.A. Miller, Knut Ekwall, Carl Gehrts, Fred Leeka, Asb, Enutesen, and Herbert Gandy. It is translated from Icelandic in modern English, but for some verses…

Sagas of Icelanders $3.99 Four books on the Sagas of Icelanders:ContentsThe Prose EddaCormac?s SagaGrettir the StrongFrithiof the Bold591 pages….