Middle Saxons

Middle Saxons
Middle Saxons (yellow) shown within Mercia

The Middle Saxons or Middel Seaxe were a people and their territory which later became, with somewhat contracted boundaries, the county of Middlesex, England. It included the early London settlement. The area was part of the Kingdom of Essex,[1] but was ceded to Mercia in the 8th century.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Keightley, A., The History of England, (1840)
  2. ^ http://www.middlesexfederation.com/history.php?selected=history Middlesex Federation- Middlesex History
  3. ^ http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/EnglandMiddlesex.htm The History Files - Middel Seaxe (Middle Saxons / Middlesex)