I have used what sources I had available which were mainly what was available on the internet (wikipeadia, local history sites etc), Bernard Cornwells superb Saxon Chronical books and my own limited knowledge of the time. I make no claim for it to be an authoritative list. I'm at work at the moment but I will post it hopefully later tonight / tomorrow here and elsewhere for people to use or modify themselves if anyone is interested.

So, after being inspired by this thread I've completed a full list of English duchies, counties and holdings, as well as some Welsh (mainly Cornwall) and Scottish counties / holdings with their Saxon equivalents. I too get frustrated when I see other cultures fleshed out with proper place names but not the Anglo-Saxons. Hopefully this thread isn't dead or perhaps this will revive it. So basically, does anybody know of a nice handy mod that simply (and correctly) renames the counties in England to their Anglo-Saxon spellings? Then again, I can't complain so much as there is a need to keep Counts viable to play as so I'll give Paradox the benefit of the doubt on that one. Rightfully they were already a part of the kingdom of Kent by that time. I'm happy to see Essex (East Seaxe) represented as a rightful Kingdom, but as to why Sussex and Surrey are independent at the 769 start date, I'm not sure. There was the divisison (and annexation) of the Kingdom of Kent under the rule of Wessex (Westseaxna) (and honestly, I'm somewhat upset that London doesn't belong to Mercia like it should, feth knows why Canterbury (Contwaraburg in Anglo-Saxon) does).

Seeing as there was no 'counties' in Anglo-Saxon England. It's a pain.Īnd yes, it is a whiney gripe to point such a thing out, but the division of the 'counties' rather irks me as well. Why one rule for certain cultures, but the local culture is almost put on a backfoot and ham-fisted with modern spelling and pronounciations ?Īnd before anyone points out that you can just rename the counties, baronies (whichever) when they're a part of your kingdom - I don't want to do that each time I play and Anglo-Saxon ruler. I just bothers me when I see particular modern-day English spellings, such as that of York (Eoferwic in Anglo-Saxon) when they can be bothered to change York to 'Jorvik' when being ruled by a Norse culture type. Obviously, CK2 is a veritable melting pot of different cultures and religions by the end of a playthrough, but it particularly bothers me that while Paradox has lavished so much attention on, say, the naming of counties in Ireland, Wales, Brittany and Pictland (specifically the historical naming of such regions), that they have not attributed the correct names of the 'counties' in England to that of their Anglo-Saxon counterparts. Now, I'm sure I'm not the only person that is bothered by this.

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