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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/04/04 07:06 UTC 版)
The Gewisse (Old English Geuissæ) was a tribe or clan of Anglo-Saxon England, based in the upper Thames region around Dorchester-on-Thames. The conquests of the royal house of the Gewisse in the seventh and eighth centuries led to the establishment of the Kingdom of Wessex, and Bede treated the two names as interchangeable. It is only during the reign of Cædwalla (685/6 - 688) that the title "king of the Saxons" begins to replace "king of the Gewisse". Yorke suggests that it was his conquest of the Jutish province and the South Saxons that resulted in the need for a new title to distinguish the expanded realm from its predecessor.