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The region now known as Gloucestershire was originally inhabited by Brythonic peoples (ancestors of the Welsh and English and other Romano-British peoples) in the Iron Age and Roman periods. After the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century, the Brythons re-established control but the territorial divisions for the post-Roman ...
4 de mai. de 2024 · Gloucestershire, administrative, geographic, and historic county of southwestern England. It lies at the head of the River Severn estuary on the border with Wales. The administrative, geographic, and historic counties cover somewhat different areas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century, though the areas of Winchcombe and the Forest of Dean were not added until the late 11th century. Gloucestershire originally included Bristol, then a small town.
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4, the City of Gloucester. The volume takes both a chronological and a thematic approach to the history of the City from before the Norman Conquest to the twentieth century. Victoria County History - Gloucestershire. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1988.
TitlePage (s)xiii-xivxvxvi-xviiixix-xxiii25 de abr. de 2024 · Gloucester was the Roman colonia of Glevum, founded by the emperor Nerva (reigned 96–98 ce ). The foundation of the abbey of St. Peter by King Osric of Northumbria in 681 favoured the town’s growth, and it became the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gloucester was founded by the Romans and became an important city and colony in AD 97, under Emperor Nerva as Colonia Glevum Nervensis . It was granted its first charter in 1155 by Henry II. In 1216, Henry III, aged only nine years, was crowned with a gilded iron ring in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral.
14 de mar. de 2021 · A concise history of the English city of Gloucester from its start as a Roman town down to the 21st Century
