The Stoppingas were a tribe or clan of Anglo-Saxon England. Their domain was Wootton Wawen and the valley of the River Alne in modern-day Warwickshire.[1] The name of the tribe may have come from the personal name Stoppa, who could have been the tribe's founder or leader, or earliest common ancestor.[2]

The Stoppingas formed part of the Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce, which was later conquered and absorbed by the kingdom of Mercia.[3]

In the mid eighth century Æthelbald of Mercia gave a grant of land in the region of the Stoppingas to Æthelric, the son of King Oshere of the Hwicce, for the purpose of establishing a Minster in the territory. Such an institution was subsequently built at Wootton Wawen, and the later parochia of this minster probably represents the extent territory of the Stoppingas.[4]

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  1. ^ Hooke 2005, p. 163
  2. ^ Yorke 1995, p. 42
  3. ^ Kirby 2000, p. 9
  4. ^ Hines 2003, p. 34

Bibliography

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  • Hines, John (2003), The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, Boydell Press, ISBN 1-84383-034-5, retrieved 12 June 2009
  • Hooke, Della (2005), "Mercia: Landscape and Environment", in Brown, Michelle P.; Farr, Carol Ann (eds.), Mercia: an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe, Continuum International Publishing Group, pp. 161–172, ISBN 0-8264-7765-8, retrieved 8 June 2009
  • Kirby, D. P. (2000), The earliest English kings, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-24210-X, retrieved 7 June 2009
  • Yorke, Barbara (1995), Wessex in the early Middle Ages, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0-7185-1856-X, retrieved 7 June 2009


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Heptarchy

Pencersæte Reagesate South Engele Snotingas Southumbrians Spaldingas Stoppingas Sweordora Tomsæte Undaium Weorgoran Westerne Wreocensæte Northumbria:

Mercia

coming under Mercian control. Smaller folk groups within included the Stoppingas around Warwick and the Arosæte near Droitwich (roughly corresponding to

Hwicce

included a number of distinct tribal groups, including the Husmerae, the Stoppingas and the Weorgoran. The first probable kings of whom we read were two brothers

List of Anglo-Saxon charters

South Angles Æthelric, comes Grant of 20 hides (cassati) in regione ... Stoppingas at Wootton, Warwickshire Latin, Worcester Æthelbald (of Mercia) 95 153

List of early Germanic peoples

Arosætna Tribal Hidage) Duddensaete (Dudley) Husmerae (Kidderminster) Stoppingas (Anglian tribe that lived in Wootton Wawen and the valley of the River

Wootton Wawen

established the present church. This land was in the district of the Stoppingas near the river Aeluuinnae, now called the Alne. Domesday Book (1086) records