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	Saxons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, the northern part of North-Rhine-Westphalia and the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Twente, Achterhoek).
		The label "Saxons" was also applied to German settlers who migrated during the 13th century to south-eastern Transylvania in present-day Romania, where their descendants numbered a quarter of a million in the early decades of the 20th century.
		During the period of Ecbert to Alfred, the kings of Wessex emerged as Bretwalda, unifying the country, with the shorter-lived Middlesex eventually became part of the kingdom of England in the face of Danish Viking invasions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saxons (1106 words)

	Maeldune - Saxons and Vikings
		Saxons were hired as mercenaries originally to fight the enemies from the north, the Picts and the Scots.
		Although the Saxons were incapable, at first, of sustaining urban life, the conclusion to be drawn from the evidence so far, suggests that the Roman towns of Essex, notably Colchester, continued to enjoy a degree of prosperity co-existing with Saxon settlement some years into the 5th century.
		He became overlord of Surrey and seized West Saxon territory on both sides of the Upper Thames although with the emergence of the strong West Saxon kings, Ceadwalla and Ine, the land south of the Thames was soon lost.
	www.maldonsx.freeserve.co.uk /Maeldune/maldon_saxons_and_vikings.htm (7267 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Saxon writers regularly speak of their own nation as a part of the Angelcyn and of their language as Englisc, while the West Saxon royal family claimed to be of the same stock as that of Bernicia in the north.
		The term Angli Saxones seems to have first come into use by Latin writers on the continent, nearly a century before Alfred's time, in the writings of Paul the Deacon, historian of the Lombards.
		That is, it meant "English Saxons"; however, in later times it was commonly understood as a combined form "Angles and Saxons".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anglo-Saxons (3099 words)

	Saxons - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Saxons or Saxon people are part of the German people with its main areas of settlements in the German Federal States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and the northern part of North-Rhine-Westphalia.
		A number of Saxons, along with Angles, Jutes, Frisians and possibly Franks, invaded or migrated to the island of Britain (Britannia) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.
		Wars between the native Romano-Britons and the invading Jutes, Saxons and Angles continued for over 400 years with the Britons being gradually driven to and contained in the mountain strongholds of Wales, south west and north west England and Strathclyde.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php?title=Saxons&redirect=no (1039 words)

	Saxons - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Saxons, Germanic people who first appear in history after the beginning of the Christian era.
		The earliest mention of the Saxons is by the...
		This account of Charlemagne's war against the Saxons, written by Einhard (770-840), the emperor's biographer, is a good example of Charlemagne's...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Saxons&pg=1&grp=art (259 words)

	The Anglo-Saxons
		The Saxons, under their principal warlord, Aelle, were decisively defeated at the Battle of Mount Badon, probably somewhere in Somerset, near the end of the Fifth Century, and their expansion was halted for a good half-century.
		The fourth kingdom, that of the East Angles, lay in the extreme east of Britain, centred on the modern counties of Norfolk and Suffolk - that is, the region still known as East Anglia.
		At its greatest extent it was bounded by the Humber in the north, the Thames in the south, the Fens in the east and the Welsh border in the West.
	www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /mf/anglosax.htm (1364 words)

	Saxon England
		In 656 the Saxons of the east Midlands won a battle on the River Wye and captured the west Midlands.
		In 841 the Danes ravaged Kent, East Anglia and the kingdom of Lindsey (Lincolnshire).
		The Saxons and the Danes fought several battles during 871 but the Danes were unable to break Saxon resistance so they made a peace treaty and the Danes turned their attention to the other parts of England.
	www.localhistories.org /saxon.html (3199 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Essex
		The region of the East Seaxe was settled from circa AD 500, and it occupied the former British territory of Caer Colun, north and east of London.
		Amongst the East Seaxe peoples themselves could be found the Rodingas, based on the modern group of Roding villages in Essex; the Gegingas, positioned immediately to the east of the Rodingas on the other side of the Roman road; and the Daenningas, between Colchester and the coast at Bradwell.
		It seems likely that there was not always one ruler of the East Saxons, and power and territory were sometimes shared or divided (as based on the Kentish model), although the kings were of a common dynasty.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandEssex.htm (664 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - East Anglia
		The kingdom of the East Angles was founded in circa AD 520 as a result of the uniting of the North and South Folk (still remembered today in the Norfolk and Suffolk regions of East Anglia).
		Heavily wooded country lying along the northern border of the East Seaxe kingdom became a political frontier between the two kingdoms, as well as with the Middil Engle.
		The Danish Kingdom of East Anglia is founded to exist alongside the similarly-formed Scandinavian Kingdom of York.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandEastAnglia.htm (540 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 757-796
		Offa took control of Sussex in about 771, and his control of East Anglia, though it cannot be precisely dated because it is recorded only in the coins, probably dates to the 760s or early 770s (see entry on 749-74).
		The fall of the South Saxons to Offa is also neatly demonstrated in the fact that an Osmund, king of the South Saxons, issued his own charter in 770 (S 49) but was reduced to witnessing a charter of Offa as ealdorman in 772 (S 108).
		It may be that Coenwulf resumed control over the East Saxons in 798, as he did over the people of Kent and shortly after that over the East Angles, but from charters we learn of another East Saxon king, Sigered, in 811.
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet/?do=seek&query=757-796 (7051 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Early Saxon Settlers In Essex Part 1
		And this could well explain why the East Saxons original settlements and their earliest kings failed to be mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and one could even speculate (wildly and quite possibly inaccuratly) that this is why the royal house of Essex never produced a Bretwalda
		Indeed, it would be odd that if the East Saxons (or the people who would eventually become known as the East Saxons) did fight against Arthur in some or all of these battles then one would have thought that there would be a record of it or at least a legend naming them.
		Although the fact that the East Saxon kingdom survived into the mid-ninth century would indicate that the East Saxon kings were expert at manipulating the more powerful kings and coming out on top.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1113986 (2109 words)

	BAFL.org.uk- Saxons Edge Out Devils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After stopping the Saxons a spectacular hook up between the impressive Ross and Nicholas Welsh went 70 yards despite missing the extra point 12 -0 looked unassailable for the Saxons.
		East Midland’s new defensive guru Eddie Nash rallied his troops at half time and they came out determined not to be beaten for another score.
		The long drive culminated in Gumbs diving in from the 4 yard line, he then gave the Saxons the lead, when after being hit as he stretched for the line broke the plane by inches on the 2 point conversion.
	www.gridironuk.co.uk /artman/publish/east_midland_saxons/article_827.shtml (454 words)

	History of East Anglia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It appears that by the end of the Iron Age, Suffolk was occupied by two major tribes; the Iceni in the north and the Trinovantes in the south.
		The last king of East Anglia was Edmund, (not to be confused with Edmund Ironside, a later King of England) born about AD 840, who became king in about 855, and in 870 faced a horde of marauding Danes, who moved through the countryside burning churches and slaughtering villages wholesale.
		On reaching East Anglia, their leaders confronted Edmund and offered him peace on condition that he would rule as their vassal and forbid the practice of the Christian faith.
	www.dself.dsl.pipex.com /GENEALGY/history.htm (368 words)

	Regia Anglorum - The Saxons
		The evolution of Saxon and then Anglo-Saxon Britain and the demise of the British peoples is almost all due to a fairly unknown leader of only half of the Roman empire called 'Honorius'.
		The Saxons from northern Germany and Angles from the border regions of Germany and Denmark, may have formed the majority of the migrants.
		One line of thought is that the graves found in early Saxon cemeteries with no grave goods may in fact be the remains of Britons who lived along side 'Anglo-Saxons', and the lack of finds represents the differing burial customs of a people who had a Christian framework.
	www.regia.org /history/Saxon1.htm (2406 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Saxons
		He wrote the Res gestae Saxonicae, a history of the Saxons from earliest times to 997.
		Heliand HELIAND [Heliand] [Old Saxon,=Savior], Old Saxon poem of 5,983 lines, a narrative of the life of Jesus in alliterative verse, written c.825.
		Leader of the English forces in the battle of Maldon, he was killed in the battle and was buried at Ely.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Saxons&StartAt=11 (338 words)

	Anglo Saxon
		The Saxons themselves called their language Englisc (Old English -sc is pronounced like modern -sh, so they would have pronounced it "English"), and a lot of the low-level structure and vocabulary of our modern English goes back to their Englisc.
		From the Saxon land, that is the place which is now called Old Saxony, came the East Saxons, the South Saxons, and the West Saxons.
		The late Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus records the Saxones among the barbarians (along with Picts and Scots) who were harrassing the Britons in about AD 365, and the mid-fifth-century Gallic Chronicle mentions another severe raid in 410, and the fall of Britain to the Saxons "after many troubles" in 441.
	mysticwatch.com /anglo_saxon.htm (1408 words)

	Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was the first of the English kings that of his supreme authority commanded the idols, throughout his whole kingdom, to be forsaken and destroyed, and the fast of forty days before Easter to be observed; and that the same might not be neglected, he appointed proper and condign punishments for the offenders.
		On coming into the province of the East Saxons, he was honorably received by the aforesaid king, and performing his usual employment of preaching the Gospel, by the example of his virtue and the efficacy of his discourse, converted many unbelievers to Christ, and confirmed in his faith and love those that already believed.
		Sigebert was succeeded in the kingdom by Suidhelm, the son of Sexbald, who was baptized by the same Cedd, in the province of the East Angles, at the king's countryseat, called Rendelsham, that is, Rendil's Mansion; and Ethelwald, king of the East Angles, brother to Anna, king of the same people, was his godfather.
	www.homestead.com /englishheathenism/book3.html (6897 words)

	anglo saxon settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Saxons in northern Germany (Lower Saxony) cremated some and buried others, this may be due to the close proximity of the Roman world and its influences.
		The Saxons were mentioned by Ptolemy in the 2nd Century A.D. as settled in S. Jutland around the mouth of the River Elbe and nearby islands.
		The Saxons connected gods with trees especially the oak tree because of its susceptibility to lightning strikes and hence its association with the god Thor.("The blasted oak" of Shakespeare).
	members.tripod.com /~midgley/anglosaxons.html (5130 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 688 AD-801 AD
		Bishop Wilfred of Hexham dies at Oundle and is buried at Ripon Abbey.
		St. Wihtburh, youngest daughter of the late King Anna of East Anglia, dies at East Dereham Abbey and is buried there.
		One Eadwald proclaims himself King of East Anglia, but is later ousted by King Coenwulf of Mercia.
	www.britannia.com /history/saxontime2.html (3509 words)

	Historical Background (Arthurian Legend)
		The Saxons set foot in Britain for the first time in AD 367, doing a lot of damage, before they were defeated and driven out by the Roman (Goth) general Flavius Theodosius, the father of Theodosius the Great (also called Flavius Theodosius).
		The Britons were driven east to Wales, southeast in Cornwall, and to the north in Scotland.
		The Angles had kingdoms in Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Middle Anglia, while the Saxons occupied Essex, Sussex and Wessex, which means the East Saxons, South Saxons and the West Saxons.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/bg-arthur.html (3128 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anglo-Saxon Church
		In England the Saxons, after establishing themselves in the south and east, in the localities now represented by Sussex and Essex, founded a great kingdom in the West which gradually absorbed almost the whole country south of the Thames.
		London, however, very shortly afterwards had its church, and Mellitus was consecrated to reside there as Bishop of the East Saxons, while another church was erected at Rochester with Justus as bishop.
		The ancient Saxon tower of Earl's Barton church near Northampton may be appealed to as an illustration of the rest.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01505a.htm (5825 words)

	Fact and Fiction in the Legend of St. Edmund, by Dorothy Whitelock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He took the words ‘sprung from the noble stock of the ancient Saxons’ to mean that Edmund was a continental Saxon, and he tells a long romantic story to account for this.
		The reluctance of the king of the Saxons was overcome by his remembering that when he had been in Rome, a matron had seen a vision and interpreted it as a sign of future greatness for him or one of his sons.
		The East Angles, moved by fear of the pirates who were often ravaging, and of neighbouring kings, now that Offa was dead, consented to elect Edmund.
	www.wmich.edu /medieval/research/rawl/edmund/whitelock.html (7616 words)

	Throughout the whole of the lands conquered by the Völkerwanderung
		Century, the Saxons began to appear with the Franks, as sea borne raiders.
		Whilst Sussex and Essex are simply the kingdoms of the 'South Saxons' and the 'East Saxons' respectively, Kent takes its name from the Cantiaci - the Celtic tribe who inhabited the region before their displacement by the invaders.
		The kingdom of the East Angles, which lay in the extreme east of Britain and is still known as East Anglia, comprised of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
	www.nimues-realm.freeservers.com /anglo-saxons.htm (1116 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo Saxon kings
		Until the late seventh century, a series of warrior-kings in turn established their own personal authority over other kings, usually won by force or through alliances and often cemented by dynastic marriages.
		His influence extended both north and south of the river Humber: his nephew became king of the East Saxons and his daughter married king Edwin of Northumbria (died 633).
		It was the threat of invading Vikings which galvanised English leaders into unifying their forces, and, centuries later, the Normans who successfully invaded in 1066 were themselves the descendants of Scandinavian 'Northmen'.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page14.asp (475 words)

	ENGLAND
		Cedd became Bishop of the East Saxons (at Tilbury), Cynebil was founder and Abbot of the monastery of Lastingham, and Celin became chaplain to King Aethelwald of Deira.
		She was the daughter of Hereic, nephew of King Edwin of Northumbria, who was converted through the preaching of Paulinus and baptized by him in 627 A.D. She served God faithfully in the secular world for a number of years, being influenced by both the Roman and Celtic streams of Christianity.
		At the Synod of Whitby the delegates of the Celtic persuasion were King Oswy, who presided; Cedd, bishop of the East Saxons; Hilda; and Colman, bishop of Lindisfarne.
	fromdeathtolife.org /chistory/england.html (3734 words)

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		The kingdoms of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, and Sussex were not able to extend their territories during this second phase of hostilities, because of the activities of the more powerful neighboring kingdoms, but they did consolidate their conquests.
		Even before 600 the territory of the Middle Saxons had been taken over by the East Saxons, whose kings were themselves by then clients of the kings of Kent and later of the kings of the East Angles and of the West Saxons.
		In deriving the Saxons from the districts occupied in his time by the Old Saxons, Bede is certainly pointing to the coastlands between the Elbe and the Weser valleys.
	www.law2.byu.edu /Thomas/Legal_History/SuppF.htm (17305 words)

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