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HWICCE , one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon See also:

Britain. Its exact dimensions are unknown; they probably coincided with those of the old See also:diocese of See also:Worcester, the See also:early bishops of which See also:bore the See also:title " Episcopus Hwicciorum." It would there-fore include See also:Worcestershire, See also:Gloucestershire except the See also:Forest of See also:Dean, the See also:southern See also:half of See also:Warwickshire, and the See also:neighbour-See also:hood of See also:Bath. The name Hwicce survives in Wychwood in See also:Oxfordshire and Whichford in Warwickshire. These districts, or at all events the southern portion of them, were according to the Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, s.a. 577, originally conquered by the See also:West See also:Saxons under See also:Ceawlin. In later times, however, the See also:kingdom of the Hwicce appears to have been always subject to Mercian supremacy, and possibly it was separated from Wessex in the See also:time of See also:Edwin. The first See also:kings of whom we read were two See also:brothers, Eanhere and Eanfrith, probably contemporaries of See also:Wulfhere. They were followed by a See also:king named Osric, a contemporary of /See also:Ethelred, and he by a king Oshere. Oshere had three sons who reigned after him, lEthelheard, AEtbelweard and 1Ethelric. The two last named appear to have been reigning in the See also:year 706. At the beginning of See also:Offa's reign we again find the kingdom ruled by three brothers, named Eanberht, Uhtred and See also:Aldred, the two latter of whom lived until about 780. After them the title of king seems to have been given up.

Their successor lEthelmund, who was killed in a See also:

campaign against Wessex in 802, is described only as an See also:earl. The See also:district remained in See also:possession of the rulers of See also:Mercia until the fall of that kingdom. Together with the See also:rest of See also:English Mercia it submitted to King See also:Alfred about 877–883 under Earl IEthelred, who possibly himself belonged to the Hwicce. No See also:genealogy or See also:list of kings has been preserved, and we do not know whether the See also:dynasty was connected with that of Wessex or Mercia. See See also:Bede, Historia See also:eccles. (edited by C. Plummer) iv. 13 (See also:Oxford, 1896) ; W. de G. See also:Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, 43, 51, 76, 85, 116, 117, 122, 163, 187, 232, 233, 238 (Oxford, 1885-1889). (F. G. M.

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