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Ælle's death is not recorded and although he may have been the founder of a South Saxon dynasty, there is no firm evidence linking him with later South Saxon rulers.
The first recorded use of the term Bretwalda comes from a West Saxon chronicle of the late 9th century that applied the term to Ecgberht, who ruled from 802 to 839.
The first recorded king, according to the East Saxon King List, was Æscwine to which a date of AD 527 is given for the start of his reign, although there are some difficulties with the date of his reign, and Sledda is listed as the founder of the Essex royal house by other sources.
The inscription can be read as ' Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua ' ( Ælnat made this cross for good of his soul ) ( the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists ): the name of this man is Saxon ( together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area ).
Æthelbald seems to have reasserted his authority over the West Saxons by the time of his death, since a later West Saxon king, Cynewulf, is recorded as witnessing a charter of Æthelbald at the very beginning of his reign, in 757.
It has a strong and vibrant local history which includes Saxon burial mounds and an Iron Age field system on Farthing Downs, an ancient church recorded in the Domesday book, Marlpit ( a former industrial chalk quarry ) and the former Cane Hill Mental Hospital ( a site currently under development ).
The earliest surviving reference is AD 959 when it is recorded as Hanewelle in pledge, when Alfwyn ( a Saxon ) pawned his land for money to go on a pilgrimage.
The medieval village had its origins in the Saxon period and is recorded in the Domesday Book.
Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957.
In 661, Wulfhere is recorded in the Chronicle as harrying Ashdown, in West Saxon territory.
Sussex was still under West Saxon domination in 710, when Nothhelm is recorded as having campaigned with Ine in the west against Dumnonia.
The Saxon name for Ealing was recorded c. 700 as ' Gillingas ', meaning ' place of the people associated with Gilla ', from the personal name Gilla and the Old English suffix '- ingas ', meaning ' people of '.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle recorded the event:
The first record of the term " Cumberland " appears in 945, when the Anglo Saxon Chronicle recorded that the area was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland by King Edmund of England.
The first recorded mention of the town is the grant of land at Hamaele by Offa, King of Essex, to the Saxon Bishop of London in AD 705.
The town was recorded in the Anglo Saxon charter in 968 as Nywetone at Stoure, and in the Domesday Book as Newentone.
Kempston was recorded as " camestone " in the Domesday Book and had a 6th-century Anglo Saxon burial site, now home to the Saxon Centre.
The name of the valley is first recorded in the 14th century and he argues that " Thurs " is from the Anglo Saxon " þyrs ".
Melton Mowbray itself had six recorded crosses the construction of which spanned several centuries: ( i ) Kettleby Cross, ( close to the present Total filling station near the junction of Dalby Road to the Leicester Road ), ( ii ) Sheep Cross, on what was Spital End, ( now Nottingham Street / Park Road Junction, ( iii ) Corn Cross at the Swine Lane / Spittle End junction, ( reconstructed and reinstated on the Nottingham St / High St junction in 1996 as a memorial to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps ), ( iv ) Butter Cross or High Cross, at the west end of Beast Market ,( again reconstructed from partial remains of the original Saxon cross in 1986 / 7 in the Market Place ), ( v ) Sage Cross, at the East end of the Beast Market close to Salt gate ,( on Sherrard Street opposite Sage Cross Street ), and ( vi ) Thorpe Cross at the end of Saltgate ( near the junction of Thorps Road and Saxby Road ).
A Saxon village called ‘ East Leah ’ has been recorded to have existed since 932 AD.
Lead singer Sky Saxon had a musical career that went back to pre-Beatle music days, when he recorded a few 45s under the name Richie Marsh.
It was recorded in the Domesday Book as being held by Earl Harold Godwin, who became the last of the Saxon kings.
By the end of the Saxon period, there was definitely a village here, as it is recorded in the Domesday Book, when it was held by Swein of Essex, the son of Robert FitzWimarc.

Saxon and new
The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.
The new arrivals rebelled, plunging the country into a series of wars that eventually led to the Saxon occupation of Lowland Britain by 600.
Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".
In the early 10th century, Bardney was in Viking territory, and in 909, following a combined West Saxon and Mercian raid, St Oswald's relics were translated to a new minster in Gloucester, which was renamed St Oswald's Priory in his honour.
Examples include Wittenberg, the old capital of the Saxon Elector State during the Holy Roman Empire, and seat of the National University made famous by Martin Luther and Melanchthon ( which was already done away with in 1817 by means of a merger with the Prussian University of Halle ), and Torgau, birthplace and place of residence of the Elector Frederick the Wise, which was incorporated into one of the new hybrids created by Prussia under the name Province of Saxony.
A charter issued in the first year of Æthelberht's reign reflects an extraordinary new kind of assembly: it was the first charter of a West Saxon king to include a full complement both of West Saxon and of Kentish witnesses.
The strongest arguments for forgery are that a ) there is actually no new information in ' Asser ' that cannot be found in the surviving Anglo Saxon Chronicles, so that it is not contemporary with Alfred as it claims ; b ) that the Latin translation is simply lifted from the Chronicles ' narrative and interspersed with padding of no importance ; c ) that writing in Latin a contemporary narrative was anachronistic ; d ) that much of the alleged illness of Alfred in ' Asser ' is lifted from standard hagiographic conventions and similarly so are ' Asser's ' claims as to the educational development and attainments of Alfred ; and e ) that much of the dating in ' Asser ' uses the age of Alfred can be shown as incorrect and can be traced to the mis-datings in later rescensions of the Chronicles, so that ' Asser ' cannot have been a contemporary of Alfred.
Stoke Newington or ' new town in the wood ', has been lightly settled for many hundreds of years, close to larger neighbouring Saxon settlements near the River Lea.
Also in the early 660s, the West Saxon see of Dorchester, in the same area, was divided, and a new bishopric set up at Winchester.
The new king, Conrad III, demanded the imperial insignia which were in Henry's possession, and the duke in return asked for his investiture with the Saxon duchy.
To the north of the town, an early Saxon settlement was investigated by APS prior to the construction of new housing and facilities at the Holdingham roundabout.
The Saxon ministers, after protesting against the new arrangement, arrested Patkul and shut him up in the fortress of Sonnenstein on 19 December 1705, altogether disregarding the remonstrances of Peter against such a gross violation of international law.
This may have been repairs and improvements to an existing Saxon fort or burgh, centred on the Saxon church of St Mary de Castro, although archaeological evidence suggests that it was actually a new motte and bailey design castle built from scratch nearby.
For example, a new wave of colonization resulted in the establishment of the Saxon seats of Sighişoara and Mediaş ; and the lord of Ilia received, in 1292, royal permission to settle Romanians in the lands he owned.
In Autumn 2008, English Touring Theatre ( ETT ) toured Britain with a new stage adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd directed by Kate Saxon.
Circa 1080 the Normans built a new nave to the east of the Saxon ruins, and a lean-to south aisle, building a new entrance archway through the Saxon wall.
The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out between 1175 and 1230 on land bordering the River Arrow and possibly designated as part of the Saxon open field system.
Saxon continued to use the name " The Seeds ", using various backup musicians, at least through 1972 ; the last major-label records of new material by The Seeds — two non-charting singles on MGM records — were released in 1970.
Front view of Newcastle Castle Bridgend. After the Norman conquest of Anglo Saxon England in 1066, the new establishment looked westwards in the following decades to create new seats for lords loyal to William The Conqueror.

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