What is Kingdom of Lindsey?
{{For|The village in Suffolk|Lindsey}} [[File:Lindsey.svg|thumb|300px|{{center|The kingdom of Lindsey}}]] The '''Kingdom of Lindsey''' was in approximately what is now [[Lincolnshire]]. At the time of the [[Roman Britain|Roman conquest of Britain]], it was a part of the [[:wikt:territory|territory]] of the Corieltauvi tribe.{{efn|The Corieltauvi were a tribe of [[Britons (Celtic people)|Britons]] living in the [[British Isles]] before and during the Roman conquest. Their capital was called ''Ratae Corieltauvorum'', known today as Leicester.}} Lindsey appears in the [[7th century]] list called the [[Tribal Hidage]], where it is shown to be the same size as [[Essex]] and [[Sussex]], all of which were set at 7,000 [[Hide (unit)|hides]]. It was a lesser [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] [[kingdom]] which was disputed over by [[Northumbria]] and [[Mercia]]. It ceased to exist as an independent kingdom during the reign of [[Offa of Mercia]]. == Geography == Lindsey was between the [[River Humber]] on the north and the [[river Witham|Witham]] on the south. To the east lay the [[North Sea]] and the west border was the [[River Trent]]. The [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[canal]] called [[Foss Dyke]] connected the Witham with the Trent on the southwestern border. Also to the west was [[Hatfield Chase]], a low lying area of [[:wikt:marshes|marshes]].<ref name=Stenton49>Frank Stenton, ''Anglo-Saxon England'' (Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 49</ref> This meant Lindsey was completely surrounded by water.<ref name=Drinkall7>''The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Castledyke South, Barton-on-Humber'', eds. Gail Drinkall; Martin Foreman, Martin G. Welch (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), p. 7</ref> This led to the popular belief that Lindsey was an Island.<ref name=Drinkall7/> == History == The name Lindsey comes from the word ''Lindissi'' (also spelled ''Lindesse'' and ''Lindesig'').<ref name=Green2>T. Green, ‘The British Kingdom of Lindsey’, ''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', 56 (2008), p. 2</ref> Lindsey is a British name and n