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Definition of Heptarchs
1. heptarch [n] - See also: heptarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heptarchs
Literary usage of Heptarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"... and they published these catalogues of names, disfigured by Greek orthography,
not as lists of cotemporary heptarchs Who preceded (z Kings, vii. 6. ..."
2. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"The over-king of the English heptarchs,the first being Hengist king of Kent (457),
and the last Egbert king of ..."
3. The Dawn of Italian Independence: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1814 by William Roscoe Thayer (1893)
"... a man whose favorite motto was "three days of bloodshed secure thirty years
of peace." Nevertheless, these heptarchs, with their 1 Metternich to ..."
4. Rome, as it was Under Paganism, and as it Became Under the Popes by John Miley (1843)
"... Saxon heptarchs of by the title of their Lord, styling the jects. In the third
place, it was not of Rome, alone, but all the countries that were ..."
5. Historical Sketches of Feudalism, British and Continental: With Numerous by Andrew Bell (1852)
"The sway of the Saxon chiefs as heptarchs is understood to have terminated AD
828, about which time Egbert, King of Wessex, ..."
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