Middle Angles
The means fishing were an ethnic and cultural group within the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia in the early Middle Ages.
Origin and area
The means fishing were formed in the East Midlands as a result of of East Anglia and the area around The Wash outgoing migrant movement in the early 6th century. After establishing their rule Middilangli this group was called. The center of their territory lay in the present county of Leicestershire and the East Staffordshire, but eventually extended to the hills of present-day county of Cambridgeshire and the hilly terrain of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. This meant that the means fishing a strategically important geographical position in both Mercia and throughout southern England occupied since they the river Trent controlled land, the major trade routes of Watling Street and the Fosse Way, and water with its tributaries, Tame and Soar.
The funds Fishing in Mercia
The integration of the territory of the middle Fishing in the Kingdom of Mercia began even before the reign of King Penda (ca. 626-655 ). Penda put his son Peada as a ruler of the means fishing. According to Bede the means fishing were the target of an existing four- men group of Christian missionaries, which began its missionary activity after baptism Peadas in the year 653, and in which was the Holy Cedd. The establishment Peadas as a king of the means fishing implies that at this time the administrative integration of the territory of the means fishing in the Kingdom of Mercia was far advanced.
After the death of Penda in 655 and the murder Peadas in the year 656 King Oswy of Northumbria exercised dominion in the field of medium fishing. He used one of the missionaries, the Irish Diuma, as bishop of both the means fishing and the Kingdom of Mercia. Bede stresses that the shortage of priests Oswiu compelled to use a man as bishop of two peoples. This suggests that the means fishing, although its territory was located in the immediate vicinity of the center of Mercia, as different from the actual population Mercia ethnicity were seen. This conceptual distinction was otherwise used only in Mercia been divided previously independent areas in the north and west Mercia. Diuma died in the field of medium fishing after a short but successful missionary activity. His successor Ceollach, also an Irishman, returned for unknown reasons after a few years in his homeland; followed him after Trumhere and then Jaruman.
After Mercia had regained its independence from Northumbria under King Wulfhere, disappeared the means fishing from the sources and are only mentioned in the Life of Saint Guthlac, where reports of Penwalh, he lives in Mediterraneorum Anglorum partibus.
The funds were fishing until its conquest by Mercia a small, secluded ethnicity. Their sudden appearance in the sources of the 7th century does not mean that they formed a solid, closed group, but that it was a collection of different anglischer groups. For this also is the fact that the means fishing in tribal Hidage were not mentioned.