Readingas
The Readingas (Old English Rēadingas) were a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was Reading; their territory formed a regio or administrative subdivision of the early Kingdom of Wessex.[1] The area of the Readingas adjoined that of the Sunningas to the east and that of the Basingas to the south. The subdivision retained a role beyond the Anglo-Saxon period as Reading remained the administrative centre for a distinctive grouping of hundreds within Berkshire throughout the Middle Ages.[1]
The name may have been taken from a personal name and mean "Rēada's people", or it may be based on a topographical root and mean "The people of the red one".[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yorke 1995, p. 40.
- ↑ Yorke 1995, p. 42.
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