The historic county has different boundaries than the one known today. It included a large exclave called Maelor Saesneg, as well as Prestatyn, Rhyl, and St Asaph, which are all now part of Denbighshire, Bangor-on-Dee, and Overton-on-Dee, which are part of Wrexham. In 1284 Flintshire was formed under the terms of the Statute of Rhuddlan. However, the region had been English since the 8th century and formed part of Cheshire until the Welsh captured it in the late 12th century.","Lancashire (Lancs) didn’t exist in 1086 for the Domesday Book but was first created in 1182, a historic, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Originally two separate parts which included Manchester and Liverpool along the northwestern edge of England.","This historic county of Yorkshire (County of York) is located in Northern England and is the largest in the whole England and the United Kingdom. Full of large stretches of countryside including well known Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Peak District it is now surprise it was nicknamed “God’s own Country”.","King Edward I(1239-1307), was crowned the King of England in 1272 at Westminster Abbey. He remained King until his death on 7 July 1307.","Cheshire is located in the North West of England, the history can be traced back to the Hoxnian interglacial (400,000 and 380,00 Years BP), stone age remains have been found showing permanent habitation in the Neolithic period.","Norfolk lies in the East of England with borders along Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk with a large area on the North Sea. There were settlers as early as 950,00 years ago (pre-Roman), there is evidence of occupied areas right throughout, including the 5th Century the Norman Conquest.","Hundred derived from the Danish or Norse word wapentake which literally meant the taking up of weapons that were laid aside after an agreement was first used by the Saxons between 613 and 1017. One hundred held enough land to sustain approximately 100 households, or in other words land covered by one hundred \"hides\".","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","One of the Home Counties, Essex is located in the East of England. It borders Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Greater London as well as the estuary of the River Thames.","Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/knight.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Northumberland England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Staffordshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/domesday_book.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/final_concord.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lincolnshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/pipe_roll_1194.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/wales_flintshire.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lancashire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Yorkshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Cheshire England.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Norfolk England.webp?pos=floatRight","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Essex England.webp?pos=floatRight","",null],"mode":"","s":"Jarert","sU":"GERRARD","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":"Scottish","cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/GERRARD/EN/Jarert/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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