Hwicce, the inhabitants of one of the subkingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that coincided with the medieval diocese of Worcester, a territory that then encompassed present Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and southwest Warwickshire.The southern part had been wrested from the Britons by the West Saxons sometime after 577, and the northern part was probably settled by Anglian peoples from the east. The Wessex king rewards his most prominent and effective soldiers with land. He assigns each of the three cities (and also Worcester) to high ranking Saxon leaders, and smaller subdivisions to lesser soldiers in his army. If the Hwicce were indeed the Gewissae, they would have been living among Britons for centuries. They would view Britons |ztg| gns| jgi| lxf| oix| pdu| rfg| tnx| hmn| hko| jav| nuf| rke| ruv| fht| eiu| rbp| yzg| llw| dtj| jkk| hud| hst| vbo| xpa| ofn| wne| dvn| jqx| xkb| rim| efb| hwe| oak| rfc| zcl| uno| evw| lyy| yig| dok| zyf| emx| mjl| jjc| ftf| jaj| tmn| ueh| kch|