Kingdom of Sussex
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The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex, was an early medieval English kingdom, constituting one of the seven traditional kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. On the so
A coin from the Patching Hoard was a gold solidus struck in the name of Severus III
Charter S 1184 dated 780 of Oslac, ealdorman of the South Saxons, granting land to the Church of St Paul (Selsey Cathedral). Below is an endorsement of the charter by King Offa dated between 789 and 796.
Harold Godwinson, the future king of England, shown on the Bayeux Tapestry riding with his knights to Bosham from where he set sail in 1064.
Remains of the burh wall at Burpham
Ælle of Sussex
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Ælle is recorded in much later medieval sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.
Kingdom of Sussex
…remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were ruled by them as part of the new kingdom of England. The foundation legend of the kingdom of Sussex is that in 477 Ælle and his three sons arrived in three ships, conquering what is now Sussex. Ælle became overlord, or Bretwalda, over the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms south…
Imaginary depiction of Ælle from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy"