Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
Gone Medieval
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The Origins of Kingship in England
In the earliest period we start seeing kings behaving it doesn't really have that kind of meaning. It means something much more like what we would consider, chieftain leading man and that's what we see basically as the Anglo-Saxons come over and settle in England. These are highly localised and there's good evidence that the kingdoms we start seeing were made up of previously been other kinds of kingdoms. There being lots of these, lots of different kinds of kings in a very localised society.
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