By the term heptarchy is understood that complexus of seven kingdoms, into which, roughly speaking, Anglo-Saxon Britain was divided for nearly three centuries, until at last the supremacy, about the year ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Egbert established the "heptarchy"; [17] that is, became overlord of all the lesser kings. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
After the Germanic conquest of Britannia, the Anglo-Saxon invaders established a heptarchy of kingdoms across the island, pushing the Celtic Britons into modern Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland and Brittany. ❋ Carolingian (2007)
'Doubtless,' says Risdon, 'in the Saxons' heptarchy, it was a town of some note, that felt the furious rage of the merciless Danes. ' ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
The kingdoms of the heptarchy, or octarchy, had been united under the dominion of Egbert, the King of Wessex, in the year 827, and thus formed the kingdom of ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)
The kingdom of Kent having enjoyed a continued peace for about a hundred years, was arrived at a degree of power and riches which gave it a pre-eminence in the Saxon heptarchy in Britain, and so great a superiority and influence over the rest, that Ethelbert is said by Bede to have ruled as far as the Humber, and Ethelbert is often styled king of the English. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)
Kent, Sussex, Essex, and the counties of the Saxon heptarchy. ❋ F. J. Widgery (N/A)
Norman Conquest, being 547 years, and ended in 1066, having been governed by 17 monarchs, during the heptarchy, of whom five were ❋ Unknown (N/A)
One objection made against it is that, upon the analogy of other similar compounds, heptarchy ought strictly to mean a ruling body composed of seven persons. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
They are not all equal in rank, and even in the work of that heptarchy of genius, there were trivial things to be found .... ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)
Even then it was probably in a better condition than it had been at the Norman conquest; and at the Norman conquest than during the confusion of the Saxon heptarchy. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Let any man try in this country to restore the heptarchy, do you think that any portion of the people would think that the project could be tolerated for a moment? ❋ Unknown (1906)
Still another version relates that Odin and Frigga had seven sons, who founded the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy. ❋ Unknown (1894)
The distant appearance of this huge building, with these singular accompaniments, is as interesting to the lovers of the picturesque, as the interior of the castle is to the eager antiquary, whose imagination it carries back to the days of the heptarchy. ❋ Unknown (1892)
In the long centuries the heptarchy in England had been followed by a monarchy with London for its capital; and in like manner the seven kingdoms of ❋ Brander Matthews (1890)
The Mercians, before the accession of Egbert, had very nearly attained the absolute sovereignty in the heptarchy: they had reduced the East ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
The Saxon heptarchy founded by Egbert, King of Wessex. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
In the kingdoms of the heptarchy, an exact rule of succession was either unknown or not strictly observed; and thence the reigning prince was continually agitated with jealousy against all the princes of the blood, whom he still considered as rivals, and whose death alone could give him entire security in his possession of the throne. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
But the priests in the heptarchy, after the first missionaries, were wholly Saxons, and almost as ignorant and barbarous as the laity. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
