The internal fueding produced by this may have led to the delayed rise of Wessex as a full kingdom, but this is conjecture. |
The internal feuding produced by this may have led to the delayed rise of Wessex as a full kingdom, but this is conjecture. |
** Hwicce? ** Dalraida? / Strathclyde? ** Whitghar? |
* Hwicce? * Dalriada? / Strathclyde? * Whitghar? |
There is some evidence that kingship in Wessex was not rigidly hereditary. The strongest candidate from the pool of the senior families was elected or forced his control on the lesser kings. The internal feuding produced by this may have led to the delayed rise of Wessex as a full kingdom, but this is conjecture. ...more info required...
It's northern boundary was probably the River Thames, and its heartland was the presentday counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire?, Dorset?, Somerset? and maybe Devon.
Wessex was used by [Thomas Hardy]? in his novels as an imaginary but parallel area of Southern England.
The Heptarchy:
Minor Kingdoms or domains...