Editing Kingdom of Essex (section)

===Settlement===
Saxon occupation of land that was to form the kingdom had begun by the early 5th century at [[Mucking (archaeological site)#Results|Mucking]] and other locations. A large proportion of the original settlers came from [[Old Saxony]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Yorke|first=Barbara|chapter=The Kingdom of the East Saxons|title=Anglo-Saxon England 14|year=1985|page=14|editor-first=Peter|editor-last=Clemoes|editor2-first=Simon|editor2-last=Keynes|editor3-first=Michael|editor3-last=Lapidge|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> According to British legend (see {{lang|la|[[Historia Brittonum]]}}) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the [[Celtic Britons]] to the Saxons following the infamous [[Treason of the Long Knives]], which occurred {{c.|460}} during the reign of High King [[Vortigern]]. [[Della Hooke]] relates the territory ruled by the kings of Essex to the pre-Roman territory of the [[Trinovantes]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Della|last=Hooke|title=The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England |year=1998|publisher=Leicester University Press| page=46}}</ref> There is an [[Anglo-Saxon migration debate|academic debate about the traditional narrative]], with some scholars suggesting a pattern of typically peaceful co-existence, with the structure of the Romano-British landscape being maintained, and with the Saxon settlers believed to have been in the minority/<ref>{{cite book|last1=Yorke|first1=Barbara|title=Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England|date=2005 |orig-year=1990 |publisher=Routledge|location=London and new York|isbn=0-415-16639-X|page=45}}</ref> Howeverm Alexander Mirrington argues that the cultural change seen in the archaeological record is so complete that "a migration of a large number of people is the most logical and least extreme solution".<ref>Alexander D. Mirrington, ''Transformations of Identity and Society in Anglo-Saxon Essex: A Case Study of an Early Medieval North Atlantic Community'' (2019: Amsterdam University Press), p. 98</ref>