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|subdivision_name2 = [[File:Stonne Flag.png|20px]] [[Stonne Barony|Stonne]]

|subdivision_name2 = [[File:Stonne Flag.png|20px]] [[Stonne (Barony)|Stonne]]

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It is known from excavations that Spelph has been inhabited by humans since at least the Paleolithic period. Studies of the genetic makeup of Stonne's prehistoric inhabitants show a high frequency of the y-chromosome haplogroup G2g, a common genetic trait amongst the [[Gothic people|Gothic peoples]]. [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]] migrated from the coast of the [[Vandarch]] around the third century BC, settling a town where the modern city of Spelph is. The Khovihniks were eventually pushed north and out of the region by the Goths during the [[Great Gothic migration]] of the seventh century AD. The ancient Khovihnik ruins in Spelph are now a tourist attraction.

[[Dan Lärdmann]] attests in his [[Chronica Gothica]] from the late ~~9th~~ century that the holdings of ''[[Stonne|Stohn]]'' and ''Spelf'' and their surrounding lands were under the rule of [[Ingmar the Ironwilled]], who had sworn fealty to Grand Chief [[Ricfried of Don]]. Spelph was a small farm town in this period and is known from local records to have suffered a great fire in 852. A small castle was completed in Spelph in 1004 by the town's Chief [[Sigismund of Spelf]]. Spelph was spared combat and surrendered without a fight in 1474 in the [[Conquest of Joanusterre]].

[[Dan Lärdmann]] attests in his [[Chronica Gothica]] from the late temth century that the holdings of ''[[Stonne|Stohn]]'' and ''Spelf'' and their surrounding lands were under the rule of [[Ingmar the Ironwilled]], who had sworn fealty to Grand Chief [[Ricfried of Don]]. Spelph was a small farm town in this period and is known from local records to have suffered a great fire in 852. A small castle was completed in Spelph in 1004 by the town's Chief [[Sigismund of Spelf]]. Spelph was spared combat and surrendered without a fight in 1474 in the [[Conquest of Joanusterre]].

A tally of his holdings ordered by the [[Stewards of Yonderre|Steward]] of [[Donne]] [[Rachet d'Agostino]] in 1520 records Spelph to be home to a studdery, blacksmith, butchershop and tanner. Spelph is also especially noted for the presence of several tower mills that were used to efficiently grind grains from the nearby farms. An elderly hermit was killed in 1535 when her home in the forests north of Spelph was torched by a mob amid rumours that she was a witch, accused of having cursed the cattle of Spelph to lactate sour milk. A serial egg-thief, a charcoal burner who lived alone in a hut on the banks of the [[Spelph river|river Spelph]], was murdered with pitchforks in another grizzly display of mob justice in 1536. The upgrade to a watchhouse from a simple catchpole helped alleviate the issue of vigilante justice as criminals no longer had to be brought all the way to Stonne to be brought to justice.

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-|subdivision_name2       = [[File:Stonne Flag.png|20px]] [[Stonne Barony|Stonne]]
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 It is known from excavations that Spelph has been inhabited by humans since at least the Paleolithic period. Studies of the genetic makeup of Stonne's prehistoric inhabitants show a high frequency of the y-chromosome haplogroup G2g, a common genetic trait amongst the [[Gothic people|Gothic peoples]]. [[Khovihnihk people|Khovihnihk tribes]] migrated from the coast of the [[Vandarch]] around the third century BC, settling a town where the modern city of Spelph is. The Khovihniks were eventually pushed north and out of the region by the Goths during the [[Great Gothic migration]] of the seventh century AD. The ancient Khovihnik ruins in Spelph are now a tourist attraction.
-[[Dan Lärdmann]] attests in his [[Chronica Gothica]] from the late 9th century that the holdings of ''[[Stonne|Stohn]]'' and ''Spelf'' and their surrounding lands were under the rule of [[Ingmar the Ironwilled]], who had sworn fealty to Grand Chief [[Ricfried of Don]]. Spelph was a small farm town in this period and is known from local records to have suffered a great fire in 852. A small castle was completed in Spelph in 1004 by the town's Chief [[Sigismund of Spelf]]. Spelph was spared combat and surrendered without a fight in 1474 in the [[Conquest of Joanusterre]].
+[[Dan Lärdmann]] attests in his [[Chronica Gothica]] from the late temth century that the holdings of ''[[Stonne|Stohn]]'' and ''Spelf'' and their surrounding lands were under the rule of [[Ingmar the Ironwilled]], who had sworn fealty to Grand Chief [[Ricfried of Don]]. Spelph was a small farm town in this period and is known from local records to have suffered a great fire in 852. A small castle was completed in Spelph in 1004 by the town's Chief [[Sigismund of Spelf]]. Spelph was spared combat and surrendered without a fight in 1474 in the [[Conquest of Joanusterre]].
 A tally of his holdings ordered by the [[Stewards of Yonderre|Steward]] of [[Donne]] [[Rachet d'Agostino]] in 1520 records Spelph to be home to a studdery, blacksmith, butchershop and tanner. Spelph is also especially noted for the presence of several tower mills that were used to efficiently grind grains from the nearby farms. An elderly hermit was killed in 1535 when her home in the forests north of Spelph was torched by a mob amid rumours that she was a witch, accused of having cursed the cattle of Spelph to lactate sour milk. A serial egg-thief, a charcoal burner who lived alone in a hut on the banks of the [[Spelph river|river Spelph]], was murdered with pitchforks in another grizzly display of mob justice in 1536. The upgrade to a watchhouse from a simple catchpole helped alleviate the issue of vigilante justice as criminals no longer had to be brought all the way to Stonne to be brought to justice.

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