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After the collapse of Dumnonia, the remaining territory of Cornwall came into conflict with neighbouring Wessex. By the middle of the ninth century, Cornwall had fallen under the control of Wessex, but it kept its own culture. In 1337, the title Duke of Cornwall was created by the English monarchy, to be held by the king's eldest son and heir.
Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England. [46] Hardy's Wessex excluded Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called "Christminster", was ...
Alfred, son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and Queen Osburh, is born at Wantage. [5] 851. Kentish ships defeat Vikings off Sandwich in the first recorded naval battle in English history. [1] Vikings over-winter in England for the first time, on the Isle of Thanet. [1] 852. Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester. [1] Probable death of King Beorhtwulf of ...
A map of Britain during the middle of the 9th century, including a map of the location of the Anglo Saxon battle with Danes at Hingston Down, and its predecessor the battle of Carhampton The Battle of Hingston Down took place in 838, probably at Hingston Down in Cornwall between a combined force of Cornish and Vikings on the one side, and West ...
In the 8th century, Vikings began raiding England, and by the second half of the 9th century Scandinavians began to settle in eastern England. Opposing the Vikings from the south, the royal family of Wessex gradually became dominant, and in 927 AD King Æthelstan I (reigned 927–939) was the first king to rule a single united Kingdom of England .
Kingdom of Sussex emerged in the 5th century and subsumed into an Anglo-Saxon shire of Wessex in 9th century. 13 Warwickshire: County of Warwick Warks, [93] War, [92] Warw [94] 24 Westmorland: Westm [94] 29 The Barony of Kendal and the Barony of Westmorland were formed into the single county of Westmorland in 1226-7. Wiltshire: County of Wilts
Although the chronology of Wessex expansion into all of Dumnonia is unclear, Devon had long been absorbed into England by the reign of Edward the Confessor. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The early-12th-century Gesta Herewardi gives the King of Cornwall just before the Norman Conquest as a man named Alef.
From the 7th century, the Britons in the South West increasingly came into conflict with the expanding Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, eventually being pushed west of the Tamar; by the Norman Conquest Cornwall was administered as part of England, though it retained its own culture.