Tomsaete
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The Tomsaete or Tomsæte (dwellers of the Tame valley[1]) were a tribe or clan in Anglo-Saxon England living in the valley of the River Tame in the West Midlands of England from around 500[2] and remaining around Tamworth throughout the existence of the Kingdom of Mercia.[3] The tribe was identified as Anglian Mercens who came from the north, following the Trent Valley, and eventually settling along the valleys of the Tame.[1]
An Anglo-Saxon charter of 849 describes an area of Cofton Hackett in the Lickey Hills south of Birmingham as "the boundary of the Tomsæte and the Pencersæte",[4] and another charter of 835 describes Humberht as "Princeps of the Tomsæte",[5] suggesting that the group retained its identity long after being subsumed into Mercia.[6] The said boundary between Tomsæte and the Pencersæte often had Late Iron Age hill forts that also served as collecting points for territorial produce.[7] As part of Mercia, the Tomsaete was considered an important early group that settled in the heartland.[6]
References
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- ↑ "A historical timeline of Wirksworth" Template:Webarchive
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External links
- "Wirksworth Roman Project"
- On Google Book Search:
- D. P. Kirby, The Earliest English Kings
- Barbara Yorke, Kings and kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England
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