The Haestingas, Heastingas or Hæstingas were one of the tribes of Anglo-Saxon Britain. Not very much is known about them. They settled in what became...

based around modern Leicestershire, later conquered by the Mercians; the Hæstingas (around the town of Hastings in Sussex); and the Gewisse. The four main...

the form Hastingas. This is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas, meaning 'the constituency (followers) of Hæsta'. Symeon of Durham records...

Hampshire and also possibly the area around Hastings in East Sussex (Haestingas). J E A Jolliffe compared agricultural and farming practices across 5th...

and 725 and there is some suggestion that he may have been King of the Hæstingas. Some of the Anglo-Saxon charters that date from the Kingdom of Sussex...

the late 8th century, Sussex seems to have absorbed the Kingdom of the Haestingas, after the region was conquered by the Mercian king Offa. A large part...

the battlefield. The battle was already being referred to as "bellum Haestingas" or "Battle of Hastings" by 1086, in the Domesday Book. The sun rose at...

century. The people who were known as the Haestingas were a separate group to those of the South Saxons. The Haestingas became a sub-kingdom of the Kingdom...

and territories are mentioned in sources such as the Tribal Hideage: Haestingas Hwicce Kingdom of the Iclingas, a precursor state to Mercia Isle of Wight...

campaign against the Franks and Rome. King Offa of Mercia defeats the Haestingas, and joins their little region to his sub-kingdom of Sussex. Kʼakʼ Tiliw...