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History of Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire in 1832. 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.
4 de mai. de 2024 · Gloucester and Cirencester were Roman towns of note, and there were numerous villas and military camps within the historic county. Following the departure of the Romans, the Saxon Hwicca tribe conquered the area from the Britons, the ancestors of the Welsh, and the area became part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia .
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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-xxiiiGloucestershire 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.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Gloucester, England. 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. Before the Norman Conquest (1066) the community ...
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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.
Gloucester, which was the shire town of Gloucestershire from the late Anglo-Saxon period, was sometimes styled civitas in the 11th and 12th centuries. Later it was always styled a town or borough until 1541, when on the founding the see of Gloucester, it was made a city by charter.
