Magonsaete

Information about Magonsaete

Magonsaete was a minor sub-kingdom of the greater Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, thought to be coterminous with the Diocese of Hereford.

The region is thought to have been preceded by the sub-kingdom of the Western Hecani, extant in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, of which three rulers are known: By the late 8th century, the region would seem to have been reincorporated into Mercia, perhaps as Westerna, becoming the Magonsaete by the 9th century.

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Anglo-Saxon is the collective term usually used to describe the ethnically and linguistically related peoples living in the south and east of the island of Great Britain (modern Great Britain/United Kingdom) from around the early 5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066.
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Mercia (IPA: /ˈmɝsiə/) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands.
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Diocese of Hereford

Province Canterbury
Diocesan Bishop Bishop of Hereford
Cathedral Hereford Cathedral

Archdeaconries Hereford, Ludlow
Suffragan Bishop(s) unknown
Parishes 347
Churches 425
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Merewalh (sometimes given as Merwal[1] or Merewald[2] was a sub-king of the Magonsaete, a western[3] cadet kingdom of Mercia thought to have been located in Herefordshire and Shropshire.
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