Elmet
Sign in to saveElmet (), sometimes Elmed or Elmete, was a Brythonic kingdom thought to have been an independent polity between the 4th century and sometime after the mid-7th century as part of the Hen Ogledd.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Kingdom of Elmet
- Country.common_name
- Elmet
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.era
- Early Middle Ages
- Country.year_start
- circa 4th century
- Country.event_end
- Yorkshire Genocide Harrying of the North
- Country.date_end
- Winter of 1069-1070
- Country.event1
- Initially Conquered
- Country.date_event1
- 616
- Country.p1
- Hen Ogledd
- Country.p2
- Votadini
- Country.s1
- Kingdom of Northumbria
- Country.image_map
- Yr.Hen.Ogledd.550.650.Koch.jpg
- Country.image_map_alt
- Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North) c. 550 – c. 650
- Country.image_map_caption
- Yr Hen Ogledd (The Old North) c. 550 – c. 650
- Country.capital
- Loidis (Leeds) and/or Cambodunom (probably Slack, near Huddersfield)
- Country.common_languages
- Cumbric
- Country.religion
- Celtic Christianity
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Elmet (), sometimes Elmed or Elmete, was a Brythonic kingdom thought to have been an independent polity between the 4th century and sometime after the mid-7th century as part of the Hen Ogledd.
The people of Elmet survived as a distinctly recognised group for centuries after it was absorbed into Yorkshire in what later became the smaller area of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and now West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire.