What is Elmet?
{{For|Elmet Parliament seat|Elmet (UK Parliament constituency)}} [[File:AS kingdoms.svg|thumb|right|300px|{{Center|The Kingdom of Elmet between Mercia and Deira}}]] '''Elmet''' ({{Lang-ang|Elfed}}) was an independent [[Britons (Celtic people)|Brittonic]] kingdom. It occupied the area of what was later the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Elmet appears in records during the [[Early Middle Ages]] between the [[5th century]] and early [[7th century]]. Its [[:wikt:neighbor|neighbor]] to the east was the [[Anglian]] kingdom of [[Deira]]. The Anglian kingdom of [[Mercia]] was to the south. To the west it bordered on the [[Irish Sea]]. Elmet was the last surviving British kingdom in the early [[Anglo-Saxon]] period. ==History== Elmet emerged from [[Roman Britain]] as a British kingdom. The ''Elmetsæte'' (people of Elmet) were listed in [[Tribal Hidage]] as 600 [[Hide (unit)|hides]].{{efn|Elmet may have been larger. At the time the Tribal Hidage lists were made the lands of Elmet may have been divided between [[Northumbria]] and [[Mercia]]. The 600 hides may have been the Mercian portion.<ref name=Snyder209/>}}<ref name=Snyder209>Christopher A. Snyder, ''The Britons'' (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), p. 209</ref> Elmet may have originally been a [[:en:wikt:subkingdom|subkingdom]] of the [[Brigantes]].<ref name=Snyder209/> Ceredig, the last king of Elmet, was defeated in 617 by [[Edwin of Deira]] around [[Leeds]] in the south [[Pennines]].<ref name=Ashley107>Mike Ashley, ''The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens'' (New york: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 107</ref> Edwin expelled Ceredig from Elmet and from that time on Elmet was a part of [[Northumbria]]. The kings of Elmet had a royal residence at Campodonum (possibly near [[Doncaster]]) and another at Loidis (Leeds).<ref name=Bede132>Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', trans. Leo Sherley Price, revsd. R. E. Latham (London; New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 132</ref> The Elmetsæte were apparently [[Christian]], at least by the time they were conq