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Essex emerged as a single kingdom during the 6th century. The dates, names and achievements of the Essex kings, like those of most early rulers in the Heptarchy, remain conjectural. The historical identification of the kings of Essex, including the evidence and a reconstructed genealogy are discussed extensively by Yorke. [17]
William Harris was born on 21 September 1556 in Essex. [4] His parents were Sir Arthur Harris and Dorothy Waldegrave. [5] He made his home at Creeksea Place Manor [6]. Harris Arms of William's grandfather and namesake, presumed to be similar or the same as Sir William's
People from Essex were heavily involved in the colonisation of the Americas. The Mayflower, which carried the first settlers to New England, was a Harwich ship. Five of America's presidents (George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush) can trace their ancestry to Essex. [55]
The genealogy given for the kings of Deira in both the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Anglian Collection also traces through Wægdæg, followed by Siggar and Swæbdæg. The Prose Edda also gives these names, as Sigarr and Svebdeg alias Svipdagr , but places them a generation farther down the Kent pedigree, as son and grandson of Wihtgils.
The Essex Archaeological Society was founded ‘’for the purposes of reading papers, exhibiting antiquities, discussions, etc.’’, [2] on 14 December 1852. The meeting took place at Colchester Town Hall and was attended by local dignitaries such as John Gurdon Rebow (later M.P. for Colchester) and Archdeacon Charles Burney.
Isabel of Cambridge, Countess of Essex (1409 – 2 October 1484) was the only daughter of Richard, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Anne de Mortimer. She was the sister of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , and like him a great-grandchild of Edward III of England .
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The other half is in Essex, known as Bures Hamlet. Hatfield Broad Oak Priory in Essex − there is the tomb of Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford; Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford effigy, St Mary's Church, Hatfield Broad Oak. De Vere House (known as the Harry Potter house [9]) in Lavenham, Suffolk