overkingn.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6906 Onn ȝæn hiss aȝhenn oferr king Itt birrde himm wel abiggenn.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 11194 To make knaulage wid sum þing To sir augustus, þair ouer-king [a1400 Trin. Cambr. alþer kyng].

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 516 His brother Gorm quarrelled with their King or ‘Over-king’.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §8. 433 The King of Connaught, who was recognized as overking of the island by the rest of the tribes.

1885 E. A. Freeman in Dict. National Biogr. I. 160/2 The over-king at Winchester [sc. Ælfred] understood the position of the over-king at Mykênê [sc. Agamemnon] so much better than many much deeper scholars.

1904 A. H. Mathew Conversion Sir T. Matthew p. v The ancient family..traced their descent from Cunedda, the over-king of all Wales.

1958 M. de Paor & L. de Paor Early Christian Ireland i. 31 There were many of these kings in the country, each ruling his own tuath, or tribe, on its ancestral lands, and paying tribute to the over-king, who ruled a province.

1998 Amer. Hist. Rev. 103 1569/1 Higham takes the Tribal Hidage to be a tribute list of payments or obligations owed to an ‘overking’ by tributary kings.