Heptarchie

See also: cruel Kingdoms

The Heptarchie is the name given to the seven kingdoms founded by the Anglo-Saxon in the island of Brittany: these Anglo-Saxon kingdoms is the kingdoms of Wessex, the Essex, Kent, Mercie, the East Anglia or “kingdom of the Angles of the East”, the Sussex and Northumbrie.

Meanings

The term of Heptarchie is an introduced denomination a posteriori . It was not, until its final unification: the England, after 910, of nothing a country. It is with Henri de Huntingdon that one owes the introduction of this term, intended for better describing political cleavages and histories of this time, in his Historia Anglorum ( Histoire of the English ), (1123 - 1130).

Before the heptarchie

See also: Contenu=Voir also articles on [[History of Angleterre#La Anglo-Saxon conquest]], [[the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England]] and it [[dark Ages of the island of Brittany]], [[age sinks of Brittany]]

If the first times of the Anglo-Saxon conquest are very known little about, the situation is quite different of the 7th century: towards 600, more than one dozen of kingdoms existed and their number did not cease fluctuating until the end of the 9th century. However, the principal ones remained in a form or another during all the Anglo-Saxon period, so much so that seven kingdoms were retained by the Anglo-Saxon Historiographie, and indicated collectively by this term of Heptarchie.

Seven competitor kingdoms

Here is the list, as well as the ethnic origin if not their inhabitants, at least of their aristocracy according to Bède Worthy the:

Unification of Heptarchie

  • the unit first of the country of England proceeds of the conflicts resulting from the arrival of these people on the Celtic island of Brittany. The Golden Legend, Matter of Brittany, indicates that they would have come to the invitation from the legendary king Vortigern, grandfather of Uther Pendragon.

  • After several centuries of conflicts endemic S, it is the sovereign of the kingdom of Saxon West, Wessex, which ends up linking Heptarchie; throughout this tumultuous chronicle, the coveted title of Bretwalda returned to the kinglet of the one of the seven, managing to subject all or started from its neighbors.

See too

Homonymy

  • With the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms : the Saxon continental ones form the Saxon Duchés in Thuringe. Those connect in particular by the Duché of Saxony-Cobourg and Gotha to the old dynastic name of the Maison of Windsor.

Significant biographies

  • Egbert de Wessex, qui applies the strategies learned in the Carolingian armies;
  • Alfred Large the, considéré like the first sovereign who gave to Wessex the Suprématie on Heptarchie;
  • Edouard Old the, fils of the precedent, completes the unification; its dynasty becomes the dynasty founder of the Crown of England.
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Be-X-old: Гептархія

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