• DOI:10.1111/emed.12087
• Corpus ID: 162103346

The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde

@article{Edmonds2015TheEO,
  title={The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde},
  author={Fiona Edmonds},
  journal={Early Medieval Europe},
  year={2015},
  volume={23}
}

• F. Edmonds
• Published 1 February 2015
• History
• Early Medieval Europe

The kingdom of Strathclyde was focused on the Clyde valley and ruled by a Brittonic‐speaking dynasty. Historians have traditionally argued that the kingdom expanded southwards in the early tenth century, with the result that there was a revival of Brittonic language. Several scholars have recently challenged this interpretation, but in this article I defend the view that Strathclyde expanded southwards, and I propose a new model for the process. I argue that the kings of Strathclyde took submissions from the local nobility, who included Northumbrian and Gaelic‐Scandinavian magnates. This accounts for the multicultural nature of the kingdom in its heyday.