This period is known as This is the beginning of the Kingdom of Wessex in England when King Arthur of the Romano-Britons may have attempted to stop the Saxons, for a while.... |
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473 |
Saxons establish themselves in Kent |
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477 |
The 'south' Saxons establish themselves in Sussex |
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515 |
Battle of Mount Badon, West Saxon advance halted by the Britons possibly lead by 'King' Arthur |
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516 |
The Monk Gildas is born |
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570 |
Gildas dies |
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577 |
Battle of Deorham, Saxon advance resumes and the 'west' Saxons move to take over Wessex |
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590 |
Start of the Saxon architectural period (590-1100) |
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597 |
St. Augustine lands in Kent, nominally the first Archbishop of Canterbury |
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604 |
Laurence becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (Date approximate) |
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604 |
Kingdoms of Deira and Bernicia merge to form Northumbria |
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615 |
The Battle of Chester, Aethelfrith defeats the Britons |
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619 |
Mellitus becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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624 |
Justus becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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626 |
Din Eidy founded by King Edwin of Northumbria |
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627 |
Honorius becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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630 |
West Saxons invade Gwent |
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636 |
Angles capture Din Eidyn and rename it Edinburgh |
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655 |
Foundation of Waltham Abbey |
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655 |
Deusdedit becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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657 |
Foundation of Whitby Abbey |
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663 |
Synod of Whitby, Roman Christianity deposes Celtic Christianity |
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666 |
Wighard becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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668 |
26/3/668 |
Theodore becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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685 |
End of Northumbrian dominance in England |
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693 |
29/6/693 |
Berhtwald becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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731 |
10/6/731 |
Tatwine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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735 |
26/5/735 |
The death of Bede in Jarrow (673 - 735) |
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735 |
Nothelm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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735 |
Egbert becomes Archbishop of York |
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740 |
Cuthbert becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (Date approximate) |
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761 |
27/9/761 |
Bregowine becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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765 |
2/2/765 |
Lambert becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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767 |
Albert becomes Archbishop of York |
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775 |
Offa conquers Kent |
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793 |
Viking attacks on Britain commence at Lindisfarne |
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793 |
21/7/793 |
Ethelhard becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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794 |
Offa conquers East Anglia |
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796 |
29/7/796 |
The death of Offa, marking the end of Mercian Rule in Britain |
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805 |
Wulfred becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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832 |
8/6/832 |
Theolgild becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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833 |
Ceolnoth becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (Date approximate) |
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849 |
Birth of Alfred the Great in what is now Wantage |
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850 |
The Danes winter in England |
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870 |
Aethelred becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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871 |
23/4/871 |
Alfred becomes King and halts Viking advance at Battle of Ashdown |
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877 |
Danes settle in East Mercia |
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878 |
Alfred defeats the Danes at Eddington (Wiltshire) |
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879 |
Vikings force Alfred to retreat to Athelney |
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890 |
Plegmund becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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895 |
Alfred defeats the Danes at the River Lea |
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899 |
26/10/899 |
Alfred dies, Edward becomes King |
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910 |
Edward defeats the Northumbrian Danes at Tettenhall |
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923 |
Athlem the Bishop of Wells becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (Date approximate) |
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926 |
Wulfhelm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury (Date approximate) |
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936 |
Athelstan sets the border of England and Cornwall at the River Tamar |
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941 |
Odo becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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958 |
Aelfsige becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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959 |
Birtthelm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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960 |
Dunstan the Abbot of Glastonbury becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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973 |
Cession of the Lothians to Scotland |
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980 |
Viking raids continue |
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988 |
19/5/988 |
Death of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury |
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988 |
Aethelgar becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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990 |
Sigeric becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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991 |
Byrthnoth of Essex defeated by the Vikings at the Battle of Maldon |
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994 |
Swein and Olaf of Norway attack London |
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995 |
Elfric becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
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997 |
Danes ravage lands along the Bristol Channel |
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Although most Anglo-Saxon domestic buildings appears to have been of timber construction and thus little of them remain to this day a number of stone Churches exist almost as built and many others since enlarged by the Normans, the Tudors and the Victorians still contain substantial elements of the original Anglo-Saxon structure.
Another less tangible but none the less important legacy from the Anglo-Saxons are the shires and hundreds. Our modern county boundaries closely, if not in many cases exactly, follow the line of the Anglo-Saxon Shire boundaries. In another sense so does the structure of local government and the law. The modern day High Sheriff of a county can trace their office back to the Shire Reeve of Saxon times and some County Courts still sit in the same location as the Moot or Hundred Court even if the building has been replaced many times over. In Saxon times many courts were held in the open air, one wonders that if they did that today whether we would have such lengthy and expensive trials?
Follow this link for a detail map of the Political Divisions of the United Kingdom around 800AD.
Follow this link for a list of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of England.
Map of the Saxon Settlement in England printed in 1923
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