Cymenshore, the Glossary
Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælle of Sussex landed in AD 477 and battled the Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa, after the first of whom Cymenshore was held to have been named.[1]
Table of Contents
47 relations: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Atrebates, Ælle of Sussex, Ballista, Bognor Regis, Brihthelm (bishop of Selsey), Brittonic languages, Cædwalla, Celtic Britons, Chichester to Sidlesham Way, Cissa of Sussex, Commius, Copnor, Diminutive, Diocese of Winchester, Genitive case, Gosport, Highdown Hill, Hilaire Belloc, History of Southampton, History of Sussex, Kingdom of Sussex, Loanword, Meonwara, Old English, Oppidum, Ower, Pagham, Pagham Harbour, Patrick Wormald, Portsmouth, Richard Coates, River Cuckmere, River Ouse, Sussex, Roman roads in Britannia, Selsey, Selsey Abbey, Selsey Bill, Sidlesham, Silchester, Southern England, The Mixon, West Itchenor, West Thorney, Wilfrid, William Camden, 477.
- Anglo-Saxon settlements
- Anglo-Saxon sites in England
- History of West Sussex
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
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Atrebates
The Atrebates (Gaulish: *Atrebatis, 'dwellers, land-owners, possessors of the soil') were a Belgic tribe of the Iron Age and the Roman period, originally dwelling in the Artois region.
Ælle of Sussex
Ælle (also Aelle or Ella) is recorded in much later medieval sources as the first king of the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514.
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Ballista
The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis, also known as Bognor, is a town and seaside resort in West Sussex on the south coast of England, south-west of London, west of Brighton, south-east of Chichester and east of Portsmouth.
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Brihthelm (bishop of Selsey)
Brihthelm or Beorhthelm was a Bishop of Selsey.
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Brittonic languages
The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; yethow brythonek/predennek; and yezhoù predenek) form one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic language family; the other is Goidelic.
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Cædwalla
Cædwalla (659 – 20 April 689 AD) was the King of Wessex from approximately 685 until he abdicated in 688.
Celtic Britons
The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).
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Chichester to Sidlesham Way
The Chichester to Sidlesham Way was a Roman road between Noviomagus Reginorum (the ancient tribal centre of the Regni) and what is now Sidlesham, West Sussex.
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Cissa of Sussex
Cissa was part of an Anglo-Saxon invasion force that landed in three ships at a place called Cymensora in AD 477. Cymenshore and Cissa of Sussex are history of Sussex and history of West Sussex.
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Commius
Commius (Commios, Comius, Comnios) was a king of the Belgic nation of the Atrebates, initially in Gaul, then in Britain, in the 1st century BC.
Copnor
Copnor is an area of Portsmouth, England, located on the eastern side of Portsea Island.
Diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.
Diocese of Winchester
The Diocese of Winchester forms part of the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
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Gosport
Gosport is a town and non-metropolitan borough, on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England.
Highdown Hill
Highdown Hill is a hill in the South Downs, with a height of.
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Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and historian of the early 20th century.
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History of Southampton
Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England.
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History of Sussex
Sussex, from the Old English 'Sūþsēaxe' ('South Saxons'), is a historic county in South East England.
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Kingdom of Sussex
The Kingdom of the South Saxons, today referred to as the Kingdom of Sussex (from Suth-sæxe, in turn from Suth-Seaxe or Sūþseaxna rīce, meaning "(land or people of/Kingdom of) the South Saxons"), was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England. Cymenshore and kingdom of Sussex are history of Sussex and history of West Sussex.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Meonwara
The Meonwara were one of the tribes of Anglo-Saxon Britain.
Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Oppidum
An oppidum (oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town.
Ower
Ower is a hamlet in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England.
Pagham
Pagham is a coastal village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, England, with a population of around 6,100.
Pagham Harbour
Pagham Harbour is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Bognor Regis in West Sussex.
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Patrick Wormald
Charles Patrick Wormald (9 July 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a British historian born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
Richard Coates
Richard Coates (born 16 April 1949, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and educated at Wintringham School) is an English linguist.
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River Cuckmere
The Cuckmere River rises near Heathfield in East Sussex, England on the southern slopes of the Weald.
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River Ouse, Sussex
The Ouse is a long river in the English counties of West and East Sussex.
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Roman roads in Britannia
Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman army during the nearly four centuries (AD 43–410) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.
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Selsey
Selsey is a seaside town and civil parish, about eight miles (12 km) south of Chichester, in the Chichester district, in West Sussex, England.
Selsey Abbey
Selsey Abbey was founded by St Wilfrid in AD 681 on land donated at Selsey by the local Anglo-Saxon ruler, King Æðelwealh of Sussex, Sussex's first Christian king. Cymenshore and Selsey Abbey are history of Sussex and history of West Sussex.
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Selsey Bill
Selsey Bill is a headland into the English Channel on the south coast of England in the county of West Sussex. Cymenshore and Selsey Bill are history of Sussex and history of West Sussex.
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Sidlesham
Sidlesham is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres (3 miles) south of Chichester in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.
Silchester
Silchester is a village and civil parish about north of Basingstoke in Hampshire.
Southern England
Southern England, also known as the South of England or the South, is a sub-national part of England with cultural, economic and political differences from both the Midlands and the North.
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The Mixon
The Mixon (reef, rocks or shoal) are a limestone outcrop in the English Channel about off Selsey Bill, West Sussex.
West Itchenor
West Itchenor is a village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.
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West Thorney
West Thorney is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district in West Sussex, England located west of Chichester south of the A27 road.
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Wilfrid
Wilfrid (– 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint.
William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
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477
Year 477 (CDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
See also
Anglo-Saxon settlements
- Anglo-Saxon London
- Anglo-Saxon multiple estate
- Anglo-Saxon settlement in the Netherlands
- Burh
- Cymenshore
- Dingesmere
- Eia
- Eorpeburnan
- Five Boroughs of the Danelaw
- Gewisse
- Winchcombeshire
Anglo-Saxon sites in England
- Asthall barrow
- Beacon Hill, West Sussex
- Benty Grange
- Bergh Apton Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Black Ditches, Cavenham
- Buckland Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Cymenshore
- Daw's Castle
- Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
- Finglesham Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Fleam Dyke
- Fordcroft Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Frilford
- Harpole Treasure
- Houghton, Cambridgeshire (medieval village)
- Mill Hill Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Mucking (archaeological site)
- New Minster, Winchester
- Offa's Dyke
- Old Minster, Winchester
- Overstone Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Portus Adurni
- Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial
- Reculver
- Sarre Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Saxon's Lode
- Shrubland Hall Anglo-Saxon cemetery
- Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
- Spong Hill
- St Augustine's Abbey
- Sutton Hoo
- Taplow Barrow
- Thurnscoe
- Updown early medieval cemetery
- Walkington Wold burials
- Wansdyke
- Wat's Dyke
- Welbeck Hill
- West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
- Yeavering
History of West Sussex
- Archdeacon of Chichester
- Arundel Castle
- Balcombe drilling protest
- Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
- Battle of Bramber Bridge
- Battle of Muster Green
- Baybridge Canal
- Bignor Roman Villa
- Bishop of Chichester
- Bishops of Selsey
- Boxgrove Palaeolithic site
- Chanctonbury Ring
- Charlwood and Horley Act 1974
- Chichester Canal
- Chichester Festival production history
- Cissa of Sussex
- Cissbury Ring
- Cymenshore
- Dean of Chichester
- Devil's Dyke, Sussex
- Disappearance of Georgina Gharsallah
- Ebernoe Horn Fair
- HMS A1
- Holy Innocents Church, Southwater
- King and Barnes
- Kingdom of Sussex
- LEC Refrigeration
- List of royal visits to Worthing
- Littlehampton Redoubt
- Manhood Peninsula
- Muntham Court Romano-British site
- Noviomagus Reginorum
- Petworth Canal
- Selsey Abbey
- Selsey Bill
- Siege of Chichester
- Sussex Archaeological Society
- Timeline of Gatwick Airport
- West Sussex Railway
- West Sussex Record Office
- Yellowbelly (Copthorne)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymenshore
Also known as Cimeneres horan, Cumenshore, Cummenshore, Cymen's shore, Cymeneres horan, Cymenes ora, Cymenesora, Cymenshoran, Owers Bank, The Owers.