Saxonia

Saxonia [LL Saxo+-ia; cf. AS Seaxan], area inhabited by Saxons: a (Cont.); b (England). a famuli ‥ abbatis Sancti Galli in ~ia R. Niger Chr. II 158; s1169 filia regis Anglie data est duci ~ie Ann. Cambr. 52; s1209 dux ~ie Henricus venit in Angliam Ann. S. Edm. 17.  b 716 papae Gregorio Huætberchtus ‥ abbas coenobii beatissimi ‥ Petri de Saxonia (Lit. Huætberchti) Hist. Abb. Jarrow 30; in quadam parte ~ie ling imago dicebatur, aþel Anglice nobilis (Leg. Ed.) GAS 665.