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Following the end of Roman rule in Britain during the 5th century, Anglo-Saxon settlement of eastern and southern Britain began. The culture and language of the Britons fragmented, and much of their territory gradually became Anglo-Saxon, while the north became subject to a similar settlement by Gaelic-speaking tribes from Ireland. The extent ...
The Normans persecuted the Anglo-Saxons and overthrew their ruling class to substitute their own leaders to oversee and rule England. [1] However, Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman Conquest, [2] came to be known as Englishry under Norman rule, and through social and cultural integration with Romano-British Celts, Danes and Normans ...
The breakdown of the estimates given in this work into the modern populations of Britain determined that the population of eastern England is consistent with 38% Anglo-Saxon ancestry on average, with a large spread from 25 to 50%, and the Welsh and Scottish samples are consistent with 30% Anglo-Saxon ancestry on average, again with a large spread.
Historians have used the Tribal Hidage to provide evidence for the political organisation of Anglo-Saxon England and it has been "pressed into service by those seeking to interpret the nature and geography of kingships and of 'peoples' in pre-Viking England", according to N. J. Higham. [49]
An Anglo-Saxon soke that was first mentioned as a separate county in 1159. Shropshire: County of Salop Shrops, Salop [92] 16 Anglo-Saxon origins as a shire of the Kingdom of Mercia. Somerset: Somersetshire Som [92] [94] 7 Anglo-Saxon origins as a shire of Wessex with a documented history dating back to the reign of King Ine. Staffordshire
English: This map shows kingdoms in the island of Great Britain at about the year 800. The colors indicate ethnic groups: The colors indicate ethnic groups: WESSEX : Anglo-Saxons (red)
The boundaries of a few Anglo-Saxon estates were described in the boundary clauses of Anglo-Saxon Charters. These boundary clauses can sometimes be used to characterise the landscape at the time. In some cases, it has been possible to show that the boundaries of these Anglo-Saxon estates correspond to the boundaries of the subsequent parish.
The Anglo-Saxon 'Cotton' world map (c. 1040). Britain and Ireland are bottom left. This map appears in a copy of a classical work on geography, the Latin version by Priscian of the Periegesis, that was among the manuscripts in the Cotton library (MS. Tiberius B.V., fol. 56v), now in the British Library.