The Southumbrians or 'Suðanhymbre' were the Anglo-Saxon people occupying northern Mercia. The term might not have been used by the Mercians and was instead possibly coined by the Deiran or Bernician people as a territorial response to their own Kingdom of Northumbria.[1] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle refers to King Coenred as having become the King of the Southumbrians in 702, two years before he became King of all the Mercians. The fact that Coenred was the son of Wulfhere, the Mercian King, implies that Southumbria was a sub-kingdom of Mercia.
More generally, Southumbria is used by modern historians to refer conveniently to all of Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber estuary not in Northumbria, especially in the period before England was unified.
^Blair, P. Hunter, "The Northumbrians and their Southern Frontier", Archaeologia Aeliana, fourth series, 26 (1948), pp. 98-126
The Southumbrians or 'Suðanhymbre' were the Anglo-Saxon people occupying northern Mercia. The term might not have been used by the Mercians and was instead...
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3 large initials with penwork, some zoomorphic. Smaller initials with coloured washes and red dots. Other Member of the Southumbrian 'Tiberius Group'...
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Elmetsaete (Elmet) Loidis (Anglian tribe that lived in Leeds region) Southumbrians (South of the Humber estuary) East Angles / East Anglians (in East Anglia)...
Coenred succeeded to the kingdom of the Southumbrians and that in 704 he became king of Mercia. As the "Southumbrians" were those who lived south of the Humber...
105) mm Script Minuscule Additions glosses in Old English Previously kept Part of the Harleian Library Other Member of the Southumbrian 'Tiberius Group'...
colours and red dots. Marginal drawings. Additions Interlinear glosses and marginal notes in Old English Other Member of the Southumbrian 'Tiberius Group'...
believed to have been produced sometime between ca. 820 and 840 AD in the Southumbrian/Mercian region of England. The original book contains a collection of...
originating when a Northumbrian king last exercised imperium over the Southumbrian kingdoms. According to Higham, the values assigned to each people are...
an English Carolingian minuscule. The English gloss was written in a Southumbrian pointed minuscule. The codex is 235 by 180 mm. The text is written in...
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