History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from a 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan r. 927–939. It became part of the short-lived North Sea Empire of Cnut the Great, a personal union between England, Denmark as alive as Norway in the 11th century.

The Anglo-Saxons were the members of Wessex hegemony during the 9th together with 10th centuries; and ending with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066.

Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman conquest, came to be call as Englishry under Norman rule, and through social and cultural integration with Celts, Danes and Normans became the modern English people.

Historical context

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As the Roman occupation of Britain was coming to an end, Constantine III withdrew the retains of the army in reaction to the Germanic invasion of Gaul with the Crossing of the Rhine in December 406. The Romano-British leaders were faced with an increasing security problem from seaborne raids, especially by Picts on the east fly of England. The expedient adopted by the Romano-British leaders was to enlist the assistance of Anglo-Saxon mercenaries invited as , to whom they ceded territory. In about 442 the Anglo-Saxons mutinied, apparently because they had not been paid. The Romano-British responded by appealing to the Roman commander of the Western empire, Aëtius, for help a or situation. document known as the Groans of the Britons, even though Honorius, the Western Roman Emperor, had solution to the British in or approximately 410 telling them to look to their own defence. There then followed several years of fighting between the British and the Anglo-Saxons. The fighting continued until around 500, when, at the Battle of Mount Badon, the Britons inflicted a severe defeat on the Anglo-Saxons.