In Anglo-Saxon England (or Germany?), what was the population of a "hide"?

Question

Esp, you send interesting stuff, but it doesn't address my question!

Answerer 1 - OK, but how many people per family?

Answer 1

Typically 1 Hide = 5 households (or familes)
5 hides were expected to produce one fully armed and armoured soldier in times of war.
10 hides = one tithing
10 tithings = a hundred
hundreds were form into shires

Sorry, but it is the same back then as it is today, family sizes would vary. There is no exact figure on the size of a hide/household.

Answer 2

Anglo-Saxon is a collective term usually used to describe the culturally and linguistically similar peoples living in the south and east of the island of Great Britain (modern Great Britain/United Kingdom) from around the mid-5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066. They spoke Germanic dialects (that eventually coalesced as Old English) and are identified by Bede as the descendants of three powerful tribes, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.

It is a matter of some debate as to whether the Anglo-Saxons represent a mass migration and complete displacement of the existing population of southern and eastern Great Britain, or merely an integration with it. Linguistic evidence (there is very little Celtic influence on the Old English language) is often suggested to imply a significant migration,[1] although other explanations for this have recently been postulated, for example that Germanic languages are in fact ancient in certain parts of England, and so no Celtic influence would be expected.[2] Genetic studies have given contradictory results.[3] [4] Archaeological and other genetic evidence points to an alternative interpretation of events for a far more limited 'elite takover' into the east of Great Britain with levels of Angles being around 5% of the population rising to a maximum of 15% in parts of East Anglia.[5] Stephen Oppenheimer states that 30% genes in England derive from Northern Europe mainly due to ancient cultural links between England and Scandinavia in the Neolithic or before.[6]

It is known, however, that Germanic auxiliary troops had been used for centuries by Rome. If Germanic garrison soldiers had retained their language and culture, this may have facilitated any migration. Over time the different peoples coalesced into a more unified cultural and political group. Perhaps under Offa of Mercia (reigned 757-796), and certainly under Alfred the Great (reigned 871-899) and his successors, a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons existed, which developed into the kingdom of England in the 10th century, one of the main developments of Anglo-Saxon history.

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Answer 3

Medieval families, so probibly pre-conquest English familes, tended to have many babies. Over half of these children died in infancy and childhood, so the families would number from 5 to, at most 10 people, an educated guess.

Answer 4

A hide was a variable unit because it was an area of land sufficient to support a family. It's a bit like saying "how long is a piece of string?".