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Index
Note: No entries will be found for the major English kingdoms – Mercia, Wessex, Northumbria, East Anglia and Kent – as these would be too numerous to be helpful. Modern county names appear in the text only as rough guides to the location of places mentioned, so are not indexed except where they correspond to the smaller English kingdoms of the period such as Essex and Sussex.
Aberlemno Stone
Aclea, battle of
Aelfwine, prince of Northumbria
Aelfwynn, princess of Mercia
Aelle, king of Deira
Aelle, king of Northumbria
Aelle, king of the South Saxons
Aescwine, king of Wessex
Aethelbald, king of Mercia
Aethelberht I, king of Kent
Aethelbert ‘the martyr’, king of East Anglia
Aethelflaed, ‘Lady of the Mercians’
Aethelfrith, king of Northumbria
Aethelheard, Archbishop
Aethelhere, king of East Anglia
Aethelhun, ealdorman
Aethelmund, ealdorman
Aethelred, ealdorman ‘of the Mercians’
Aethelred, king of Mercia
Aethelred, king of Northumbria
Aethelred, king of Wessex
Aethelstan, king of East Anglia
Aethelswith, queen of Mercia
Aethelwald, king of Deira
Aethelwald, king of the South Saxons
Aethelweard, Chronicle of
Aethelwulf, ealdorman of Berkshire
Aethelwulf, prince and king of Wessex
Aetius, Consul
agriculture
Aidan, Saint
Alchfled, queen of Mercia
Alcuin of York
Alfred, king of Wessex
Alfthrytha, princess of Mercia
Ambrosius Aurelianus
Andredecester, siege of
Anglesey
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, as source for Mercian history
Anna, king of East Anglia
archery
Arden, Forest of
armour
Ashdown, battle of
Asser
Athelstan, king of England
Augustine, Saint
axes
Bamburgh
Bardney
Barwick-in-Elmet
Basingwerk
Bath
Bede, as source for Mercian history
Bedford
Benesington, battle of
Benfleet, siege of
Beorhford, battle of
Beorhtfrith, prince of Mercia
Beorhtric, king of Wessex
Beorhtwulf, king of Mercia
Beornred, king of Mercia
Beornwulf, king of Mercia
Beowulf
Bernicia
Bertha, queen of Kent
Biedanheafod, battle of
Birmingham
Blytheburgh
Boniface V, Pope
Boniface, Saint
bookland
Breedon-on-the-Hill
bretwaldas
Bridei mac Beli, king of the Picts
bridges
Bridgnorth
Brixworth
Brocmail
Brunanburgh, battle of
burghs
Burhred, king of Mercia
Bury St Edmunds
Buttington, siege of
Byrhtnoth, Earl
Cadafael ap Cynfedw, king of Gwynedd
Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd
Caedwalla, king of Wessex
Cambridge
Cannock Chase
Canterbury
Caradwg
Casilinum, battle of
cattle
cavalry in Anglo-Saxon warfare
Cearl, king of Mercia
Ceawlin, king of Wessex
Cenwalh, king of Wessex
Ceolred, king of Mercia
Ceolwulf I, king of Mercia
Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia
ceorls
Cerdic
Chad, Saint
Charlemagne, emperor of the Franks
Chester
battle of siege of
Chippenham
Christianity
and Clovis
conversion of Anglo-Saxons
and Edwin of Northumbria
established in Mercia
as motivation in battle
and Offa
and Penda
survival after Roman period
Cirencester
cloaks
Clovis, king of the Franks
Cnut, king of England
Cock, River
Coenred, king of Mercia
Coenwulf, king of Mercia
common burdens
Conway, battle of
Cryda
Cuckney
Cuthred, king of Wessex
Cuthred, viceroy of Kent
Cuthwine, king of Wessex
Cwichelm, king of Wessex
Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn, king of Powys
Cynefrith, queen of Mercia
Cyneheard, prince of Wessex
Cynewald
Cynewulf, King of Wessex
Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys
Cynric, king of Wessex
Danegeld
Danelaw
Danes see Vikings
Darent, River
Degannwy
Degsastan, battle of
Deira
Denisesburn, battle of
Derby, siege of
Diuma, Bishop
DNA studies
Dorchester
Droitwich
Dyfed
Dyrham, battle of
Eadbald, king of Kent
Eadberht, king of Northumbria
Eadberht Praen, king of Kent
Ealhmund, king of Kent
Eanfrith, king of Bernicia
Eardwulf, king of Northumbria
Ecgberht I, king of Kent
Ecgberht II, king of Kent
Ecgberht, king of Wessex
Ecgfrith, king of Mercia
Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria
Edgar, king of England
Edmund, king of East Anglia
Edward, king of Wessex
Edward ‘the Confessor’, king of England
Edwin, king of Northumbria
Egric, king of East Anglia
Eliseg, king of Powys
Ellendun, battle of
Elmet
Englefield, battle of
Eorconberht, king of Kent
Eormenhild, queen of Mercia
Eowa
Eric, king of East Anglia
Essex
Ethandune, battle of
Ethelberga, queen of Northumbria
Etheldreda, queen of Northumbria
Eumer
Eyrbyggja Saga
Farnham, battle of
food rents
fortifications
Danish
at York
Franks
‘Franks casket’
Frithuwold, king of Surrey
fyrd
garnets
genealogies
Gervold, Abbot
gesiths
Gildas
Gloucester
gold
‘Great Army’
Great Ouse, River
Gregory I ‘the Great’, Pope
Guthlac, Saint
Guthrum, King
Gwent
Gwynedd
Hadrian I, Pope
Hadrian’s Wall
Haegelisdun, battle of
Haesten, King
Haethfelth, battle of
Halfdan
hall burnings
Hatfield Chase
Heahberht, king of Kent
helmets
Henry of Huntingdon, as source for Mercian history
heorthgeneatas (hearth companions)
heptarchy
Hereford
battle of
Hingston Down, battle of
Hlothere, king of Kent
Holme, battle of
horses
Hroald, Jarl
Humber, River
Hwicce
Hygeberht, Archbishop
Icel
Ida, king of Bernicia
Idle, River, battle of
Imma
Ine, king of Wessex
Ingware see Ivar
Ireland
Isle of Man
Isle of Wight
Ivar ‘the Boneless’
Jaenberht, Archbishop
Jaruman, Bishop
Jutes
Kempsford
Lea, River
Leicester
Leo III, Pope
Lichfield
cathedral