Anglo-Saxon

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  1. royal house
    royal persons collectively
    At the top of the social system was the royal house.
  2. Wessex
    a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
    By the middle of the ninth century the royal family of Wessex was universally recognised as the English royal family and held a hereditary right to rule.
  3. shire
    a former administrative district of England
    The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
  4. viceroy
    governor who rules as the representative of a sovereign
    The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
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