Lindsey's greatest power was before the historical period. At the time that we are able to find the first historical records of Lindsey, it has become a subjugated polity, under the alternating control of Northumbria then Mercia. All trace of its individuality vanished before the Viking assault. Its territories evolved into the historical English county of Lincolnshire.
A collection of genealogies, created in the last years of Offa's reign, provides us with the names of the ruling lineage of Lindsey:
Woden -- Winta -- Cretta -- Queldgils -- Ceadbed -- Bubba -- Bedeca -- Biscop -- Eanferth -- Eatta -- Ealdfrith
Only the last individual (Ealdfrith) can be securly dated: Frank Stenton[?] refers to an Anglo-Saxon charter (BCS 262) that mentions Ealdfrith, and dates its writing to some time between AD 787 and 796.
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