Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. It consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. …

The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

The Celtic areas of Britain regarded the Saxons as enemies and foreigners on their borders: their name became Sassenachs to the Scottish and Saesneg to the Welsh. The various Anglo-Saxon groups settled in different areas of the country.

The Saxons came from what Bede called Old Saxony, and settled in Wessex, Sussex and Essex. (In the time of Bede, the term "Old Saxons" began to be used to distinguish the Saxons who were neighbours of the Franks in Europe, from the Saxons of Britain.)

4 days ago · Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century CE to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are now in England and Wales.

Jun 15, 2023 · The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The Saxons who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries CE along with the Angles, Frisians, and Jutes came to be known as Anglo-Saxons to differentiate them from those on the continent.

Jan 24, 2025 · The Anglo-Saxons left England a land of villages, but the continuity of village development is uncertain. In the 7th–8th centuries, in what is called the “Middle Saxon shuffle,” many early villages were abandoned, and others, from …

May 10, 2024 · Anglo-Saxon England refers to the period in British history from the 5th to the 11th century, beginning with the Roman withdrawal from Britain and ending with the Norman Conquest in 1066. This era was marked by the migration of Germanic tribes—mainly the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—to Britain.

New people came to Britain in ships across the North Sea – the Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was from around AD410 to 1066. The Anglo-Saxons were a mix of tribes from Germany,...

From barbarian invaders to devout Christian missionaries, the Anglo-Saxons brought four hundred years of religious evolution and shifting political power to the British Isles.