Volume 1 takes the story back to the foundation of the first English kingdoms, the heptarchy : Kent, Northumberland, East Anglia, Mercia, Essex, Sussex, and Wessex; and to the Romano-Welsh imperium these kingdoms supplanted.
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The region of Wessex ( the West Saxons ), in the south and southwest of England, had been one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ( the Heptarchy ), whose expansion in the tenth century created a united Kingdom of England.
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In 1851 Sharpe published a monograph entitled " The Seven Periods of English Architecture ", a small book of about 50 pages suggesting a new scheme for classifying the styles of English ecclesiastical architecture " from the Heptarchy to the Reformation ".
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Henry of Huntingdon ( a medieval historian ) conceived the idea of the Heptarchy, which consisted of the seven principal Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ( " Heptarchy " literal translation from the Greek : " hept " seven; " archy " rule ).
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Henry of Huntingdon ( a medieval historian ) conceived the idea of the Heptarchy, which consisted of the seven principal Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ( " Heptarchy " literal translation from the Greek : " hept " seven; " archy " rule ).
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His information on the non-Islamic peoples of Europe and Inner Asia makes him a useful source for these obscure regions ( he was even aware of the existence of the British Isles and of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England ) and for the prehistory of the Turks and other steppe peoples.
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For 300 years ( between AD 600 and 900 ), having annexed or gained submissions from five of the other six kingdoms of the Heptarchy ( East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex ), Mercia dominated England south of the River Humber : this period is known as the Mercian Supremacy.
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The kingdom of the East Angles, formed about the year 520 by the merging of the North and the South Folk ( Angles who had settled in the former lands of the Iceni during the previous century ), was one of the seven Anglo-Saxon heptarchy kingdoms ( as defined in the 12th century writings of Henry of Huntingdon ).
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It is from " Liber Logaeth " that Dee and Kelley derived the 48 Calls or Keys ( see below ), and in which are concealed the keys to the " Mystical Heptarchy ", a related magical work by Dee . " Liber Logaeth " has never been published in book form but is available online at :.
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:: : Indeed so and thank you for finding that . ( Ours were kingdoms of the Heptarchy, but I believe they have been changed since . ) The article House system notes its origin in, and its abstraction from, physical houses, but doesn't mention any habit of naming or nicknaming houses after their housemasters : perhaps we should add this ? talk ) 20 : 52, 30 December 2010 ( UTC)
