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Lindsey's greatest power was before the historical period. At the time of 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, gives the names of the ruling lineage of Lindsey:
The kingdom gave its name to a traditional subdivison of Lincolnshire, which includes most the urbanised areas. The division was recognised by Parliament in 1888 when it was given its own County Council (along with the other subdivisions Kesteven and Holland). These separate county councils were abolished in 1974 and Lincolnshire had a single county council for the first time (but the name lives on in the titles of the administrative districts of East Lindsey and West Lindsey). However much of the populated area of Lindsey was hived off to form the unpopular and short-lived new county of Humberside. In 1996 these areas became independent authorities as North Lincolnshire (centred on Scunthorpe) and North East Lincolnshire comprising the Grimsby-Cleethorpes conurbation. Lindsey itself has also been traditionally subdivided into west, north and south ridings, akin to Yorkshire to the North. Places in Lindsey today include -
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