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The '''Wreocensæte''' ({{langx|ang|Wrēocensǣte, Wrōcensǣte, Wrōcesǣte, Wōcensǣte|italic=no}}), sometimes anglicized as the '''Wrekinsets''',<ref>{{cite book |title=The Homes of Other Days |last=Wright |first=Thomas |date=November 2002 |publisher= Elibron Classics |isbn= 9781402187803|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxWl8MNNA8cC }}</ref> were one of the peoples of [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon Britain]]. Their name approximates to "[[Wrekin]]-dwellers". It is also suggested that [[Wrexham]] also derived from Wreocensæte.<br />
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The literal meaning of ''Wrocensaete'' is 'those dwelling at ''Wrocen''<nowiki/>'. N.J. Higham interprets this as referring to [[Wroxeter]], the former ''civitas'' of the [[Cornovii (Midlands)|Cornovii]], which became the centre of government of this early sub-Roman kingdom which was the successor territorial unit to Cornovia.<ref name="Strange (2025)">{{cite web|last=Strange|first=O|title=The Lost Land of the Cornovii|url=https://www.academia.edu/127089896/The_Lost_Land_of_the_Cornovii|accessdate=18 January 2025}}</ref> He states that, 'It may refer quite specifically to the royal court itself, in the first instance, and only by extension to the territory administered from the court.' The hillfort on the Wrekin has to date produced no archaeological evidence of Roman, sub-Roman or Anglo-Saxon settlement. The name ''Wrocensaete'' was long in use, first occurring in the [[Tribal Hidage]] (a tribute list which is normally dated to the seventh century) and was last documented as ''Wreocensetun'', a province or district of Mercia in which the Vikings were reported to be active in 855.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Origins of Cheshire|last=Higham|first=Nick J.|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1993|isbn=0-7190-3160-5|pages=68–77}}</ref><br />
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[[File:Kingdom of Mercia.PNG|right|thumb|250px|Wreocensæte in Mercia]]<br />
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The boundaries of the kingdom are uncertain, but it was substantial as the [[Tribal Hidage]] lists it as 7000 [[hide (unit)|hide]]s, equal to the kingdoms of the [[East Saxons]] and [[South Saxons]]. The evidence suggests that the Wrekinset were the most northerly of the three large [[Mercia]]n subject kingdoms facing [[Wales]], with the [[Magonsæte]] to their south, and the [[Hwicce]] farthest south.<br />
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The chief place was seemingly the former Roman [[Viroconium Cornoviorum]] (modern [[Wroxeter]]), the former [[civitas]] of the [[Cornovii (Midlands)|Cornovii]] and close to the hill fort known as [[The Wrekin]]. The kingdom may have covered much of modern [[Cheshire]], [[Shropshire]] and into North East [[Wales]], [[Wrexham]], [[Denbighshire]] and [[Flintshire]]. The border between [[Wales]] and Wreocensæte would have been [[Offa's Dyke]].<br />
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As with the neighbouring [[Magonsæte]], the lands of the Wreocensæte appear to have included a number of lesser tribes or kingdoms. Place-names suggest that the much smaller [[Meresæte]] and [[Rhiwsæte]] lay within the lands of the Wreocensæte. These, and the more southerly examples in Magonsæte, appear to be spaced regularly along the line of the frontier with Wales, and it is suggested that they may be artificial in origin, created by a king of Mercia to delineate and defend that border.<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Brooks, Nicholas, "The formation of the Mercian kingdom" in S. Bassett (ed.), ''The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.'' Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. {{ISBN|0-7185-1317-7}}<br />
* Gelling, Margaret, "The early history of western Mercia" in S. Bassett (ed.), ''The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.'' Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. {{ISBN|0-7185-1317-7}}<br />
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