 | John Kirby Hedges - 1881 - 422 trang
...given as that in which the kingdom of the West Saxons, comprehending soon afterwards, if not then, the counties of Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Berks, and the Isle of Wight, was established. Dr. Henry remarks that it took forty years and a long and bloody struggle to subdue... | |
 | Stacey Grimaldi - 1881 - 434 trang
...Kenric landed with an army. They established the kingdom of the West Savons or Wessex, extending over the counties of Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Berks, and the Isle of Wight, and Kenric's Son added thereto Devonshire and Somersetshire. In 527 a great tribe of adventurers under... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1836 - 298 trang
...battles. 4. Cerdic, however, assisted by his son Kenric,- established the kingdom of Wessex, comprehending the counties of Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Berks, and the Isle of Wight. About the same time were established the kingdom of the East Angles, that of Mercia, and that of Essex.... | |
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Arthur, they had strength. enough to keep possession of the conquests they had already made. Cerdic, therefore, with his son Kenric- established the third Saxon kingdom in the island, namely, that of the West Saxons, including the counties of Hants, Dorset,... 
