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In the 8th century, Vikings began raiding England, and by the second half of the 9th century Scandinavians began to settle in eastern England. Opposing the Vikings from the south, the royal family of Wessex gradually became dominant, and in 927 AD King Æthelstan I (reigned 927–939) was the first king to rule a single united Kingdom of England .
Gildas completes his post-Roman history On the Destruction of Britain. [1] 560. Angles conquer eastern Yorkshire and the British kingdom of Ebrauc, and establish the Kingdom of Deira. [1] 571. Foundation of the Kingdom of East Anglia. [1] Battle of Bedcanford: Cuthwulf captures Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson, and Eynsham. [2] 577
Between the withdrawal of Rome from Britain and the eighth century British Celtic had been fairly thoroughly displaced by the Germanic Old English in the Saxon Kingdoms. This was in marked contrast to experience on the Continent where the invaders adopted the Latin derived languages of the local population. [22]
The Venerable Bede writing the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, from a codex at Engelberg Abbey, Switzerland.. Contemporary written sources record scarcely any account of the most influential phases of Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain, generally thought to have been around the fifth century. [5]
The 6th century is the period from 501 through 600 in line with the Julian calendar. In the West , the century marks the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages . The collapse of the Western Roman Empire late in the previous century left Europe fractured into many small Germanic kingdoms competing fiercely for land and ...
Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.The term was originally used to describe archaeological remains found in 5th- and 6th-century AD sites that hinted at the decay of locally made wares from a previous higher standard under the Roman Empire.
The kingdom formed in the 6th century in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain and was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy. It was ruled by the Wuffingas dynasty in the 7th and 8th centuries, but the territory was taken by Offa of Mercia in 794. Mercia control lapsed briefly following the death of Offa but was reestablished.
Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, composed in the 6th century, states that when the Roman army departed the Isle of Britannia in the 4th century AD, the indigenous Britons were invaded by Picts, their neighbours to the north (now Scotland) and the Scots (now Ireland).