Ergyng
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Ergyng (or Erging) was a Brittonic kingdom of the sub-Roman and early medieval period, between the 5th and 7th centuries. It was later referred to by the English as Archenfield.
Key facts
- Country.common_name
- Ergyng
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- 250px
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- Post-Roman Welsh kingdoms. Ergyng is in the southeast (lower right).
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- Monarchy
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- 7th century
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- 5th century
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- c. 449
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- Peibio Clafrog
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- c. 585 – c. 615
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- Cynfyn
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- c. 615 – c. 619
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- Gwrfoddw
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- c. 619 – c. 645
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- Gwrgan Fawr
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- c. 620
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- Athrwys ap Meurig
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- Formed after Roman withdrawal from Britain
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Ergyng (or Erging) was a Brittonic kingdom of the sub-Roman and early medieval period, between the 5th and 7th centuries. It was later referred to by the English as Archenfield.
==Location== The kingdom lay mostly in what is now western Herefordshire (now in England), its heartland between the River Monnow and River Wye. However, it also spread into modern Monmouthshire and east of the Wye, where sits the old Roman town of Ariconium (Welsh: Ergyng) at Weston under Penyard from which its name may derive; it may have been the first capital. Some maps show Ergyng extending across what is now the Forest of Dean to the River Severn.