Crossword-Solution: BRETWALDA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bretwalda | n. | The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare against the British tribes. |
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| BRITISH title | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
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Sentences with BRETWALDA (5)
William might now call himself, like his West-Saxon predecessors, _Bretwalda_ and _Basileus_ of the isle of Britain.
Paradoxical as it sounds to say so, the Celtic kingdom of the Regni, the South Saxon principality of Ælle the Bretwalda, the modern English county of Sussex, have all had their destinies moulded by the geological conformation of the rock upon which they repose.
Such is the whole story, as told in the bald and simple entries of the West Saxon annalist, A more dubious tradition further states that Ælle was also Bretwalda, or overlord, of all the Teutonic tribes in Britain.
BRETWALDA, a word used in the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ under the date 827, and also in a charter of Æthelstan, king of the English.
Another theory is that Bretwalda refers to a war-leadership, or _imperium_, over the English south of the Humber, and has nothing to do with Britons or Britannia.