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	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wessex
		The valleys of the Thame and Cherwell are ruled by the West Seaxe, as is the upper valley of the Ouse.
		The renowned West Saxon missionary to Continental Europe, St Boniface, is born just outside Crediton (in Devon) around this date, and later receives an English education in a monastery at Exeter, which is conquered by the West Seaxe in around 685.
		By this time, the West Saxons control all the territory south of the Thames, from the borders of Kent and Suthrig to the Tamar.
	www.historyfiles.co.uk /KingListsBritain/EnglandWessex.htm (3403 words)

	My Family
		Spouse: Ceowald of the West Saxons (Overlord of Wessex).
		Cynegils of the West Saxons was baptized in 635 in Dorchester.
		Cynric of the West Saxons was born in 495 in Saxony.
	sneakers.pair.com /roots/b7.htm (908 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)

	Saxons
		Saxons had established settlements along the north shore of Gaul, especially at the mouth of the Loire, and eventually these Saxons came under Frankish domination.
		After the migration to Britain, the Saxons on the Continent came to be identified by historians as the Old Saxons.
		The Old Saxons waged intermittent war with the Franks until the end of the 8th cent., when they were conquered by Charlemagne and absorbed into his empire.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/S/Saxons.html (321 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
		The Saxons settled in southern England west of the River Medway, particularly along the south coast, the Thames valley, and the western Midlands around the Warwickshire River Avon.
		In 825 a West Saxon army inflicted a decisive defeat freeing the West Saxon kingdom and south-eastern England from Mercian control, and then in the period 865-874 a Danish army in quick succession crushed the Northumbrian, East Anglian, and Mercian kingdoms.
		The shire (or county) administrative structure of modern England was largely the creation of West Saxon 10th-century rulers, and a sound silver coinage system was another significant achievement of this period.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761579984__1/Anglo-Saxons.html (2525 words)

	Saxon - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some Saxons, along with Angles, Jutes and Frisians, invaded Britain in the early Middle Ages, giving their names to the kingdoms of Essex, Sussex and Wessex (the lands respectively of the East, South and West Saxons), which with the shorter-lived Middlesex eventually became part of the kingdom of England.
		A majority of the Saxons remained in continental Europe and long avoided becoming Christians and being incorporated into the orbit of the Frankish kingdom, but were decisively conquered by Charlemagne in a long series of annual campaigns (772-804).
		The label "Saxons" was generally 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.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/sa/Saxon.html (379 words)

	Ine - LoveToKnow 1911
		INE, king of the West Saxons, succeeded Ceadwalla in 688, his title to the crown being derived from Ceawlin.
		In the earlier part of his reign he was at war with Kent, but peace was made in 694, when the men of Kent gave compensation for the death of Mul, brother of Ceadwalla, whom they had burned in 687.
		In 722 the South Saxons, previously subject to Ine, rose against him under the exile Aldbryht, who may have been a member of the West Saxon royal house.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ine (264 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Saxons (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saxon Capital, Inc. Directors Approve REIT Conversion Proposal.
		Saxon Capital, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2003 Operating Results; Diluted EPS Increased To $0.66 Per Share for the Quarter; and $2.16 Per Share for 2003.
		Saxon Capital, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2004 Operating Results; Reports Diluted EPS of $1.14; Owned Portfolio Growth of 6% from Second Quarter 2004.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Saxons&StartAt=11 (833 words)

	Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
		The Saxons or Saxon people are (nowadays) part of the German people with their main areas of settlements in the German States of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, and the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Drenthe, Groningen, Twente, Achterhoek).
		During Charlemagne's campaign in Hispania (778) the Saxons advanced to Deutz on the Rhine and plundered along the river.With defeat came the enforced baptism and conversion of the Saxon leaders and their people.
		Following the downfall of Henry the Lion and the subsequent split of the Saxon tribal duchy into several territories, the name of the Saxon duchy was transferred to the lands of the Ascanian family.
	www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Saxons (1561 words)

	English Language - MSN Encarta
		Old English, a variant of West Germanic, was spoken by certain Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) of the regions comprising present-day southern Denmark and northern Germany who invaded Britain in the 5th century ad.
		The four major dialects recognized in Old English are Kentish, originally the dialect spoken by the Jutes; West Saxon, a branch of the dialect spoken by the Saxons; and Northumbrian (see Northumberland) and Mercian (see Mercia), subdivisions of the dialects spoken by the Angles.
		By the 9th century, partly through the influence of Alfred, king of the West Saxons and the first ruler of all England, West Saxon became prevalent in prose literature.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564210_2/English_Language.html (1469 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 450-550
		Saxon pirates may have been raiding the shores of Britain already by 365; in 367 there was a Roman military officer in charge of a series of fortresses along the south-eastern coast, and by the end of the century the coast itself was called the Saxon Shore.
		While there are details here, they cannot be accepted as reliable: since the Saxons would have been illiterate from the invasions in the 5th century until their conversion in the 7th century, the dates and details are at best a matter of traditions and later guesswork.
		There is no surviving royal genealogy for the South Saxons, and beyond a brief mention of a fight between Ceolwulf of Wessex and the South Saxons in 607 we know nothing of their fortune until their re-emergence into narrative history in the 660s (see entry on 661).
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet/?do=seek&query=450-550 (5303 words)

	Anglo-Saxons.net : Timeline: 642-774
		Ine's is the first West Saxon law code to be preserved (it survives as a "reprint" attached to the later laws of Alfred), and it was also in Ine's reign that a second West Saxon bishopric was established, at Sherborne (see entry on 705).
		The West Saxon bishopric had started out in Dorchester-on-Thames in 635, and had moved to Winchester in 660,.probably to be farther from the border with Mercia.
		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).
	www.anglo-saxons.net /hwaet/?do=get&type=chron&from=642&to=774 (14273 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 /Saxon1.htm (2406 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Alfred 'The Great'
		Born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849, Alfred was the fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons.
		At their father's behest and by mutual agreement, Alfred's elder brothers succeeded to the kingship in turn, rather than endanger the kingdom by passing it to under-age children at a time when the country was threatened by worsening Viking raids from Denmark.
		Like other West Saxon kings, Alfred established a legal code; he assembled the laws of Offa and other predecessors, and of the kingdoms of Mercia and Kent, adding his own administrative regulations to form a definitive body of Anglo-Saxon law.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page25.asp (1457 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team - Jutes
		From the Saxons (that is to say from that area which is now called Old Saxony) came the East Saxons, the South Saxons and the West Saxons.
		Bede's account of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in England (in his Historia Ecclesiastica, completed in 731 AD) is largely a regurgitation of an earlier account by the British cleric, Gildas, whose De Excidio Britannia (The Ruin of Britain) was written around the end of the fifth century.
		She argues that the history of the Jutes was lost as a result of their defeat and conquest by the West Saxons, but that they occupied large parts of what is now south Hampshire, close to the location of the Live 2001 dig.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/T/timeteam/snapshot_jutes.html (330 words)

	Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons
		In the 500's, pagan Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, invaded Britain and drove the Christian Celts out of what is now England into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
		In the 800's the cycle partly repeated itself, as the Christian Anglo-Saxons were invaded by the Danes, pagan raiders, who rapidly conquered the northeast portion of England.
		Alfred was born in 849 at Wantage, Berkshire, youngest of five sons of King Aethelwulf.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/60.html (515 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Changing Quest by C. A. Powell
		Saxon colonists seize the opportunity to gain more lands from their neighbors in the West when the old Celtic king dies leaving a power vacuum.
		The Gewisse, one of many Saxon races within West Saxon Land, were different in that their ancestors had started colonising the area a generation before the rest of the West Saxons.
		Their acceptance of the priests' support was based on the fact it would profit them a little among the people of West Saxon Land, for despite the general lack of enthusiasm for the religion, no Saxon would openly condemn the gods.
	www.fictionwise.com /servlet/mw?t=book&bookid=36604&id=5069 (946 words)

	The Anglo-Saxons
		The Saxons began to appear as sea-borne raiders in the Third Century, along with the Franks.
		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.
		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)

	Questions About Anglo
		Most writings of the period are in West Saxon because it was the dialect of King Alfred and it was spoken in the culturally and politically dominant region around Winchester.
		West Saxon: (the most important dialect): charters, royal genealogies, martyrologies, medicinal recipes, Cura pastoralis (Pastoral Care), the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (with some early Mercian elements in it) written by the Venerable Bede, Beowulf (but actually a mixture of all four dialects), the Parker Chronicle.
		This is similar to West Saxon’s hi sindon or hi sind (with the i spelled with a y and the final d pronounced as t as it is in modern German).
	www.wvup.edu /Academics/humanities/Oldaker/questions_about_anglo.htm (5249 words)

	Asser's The Life Of King Alfred
		In the year of our Lord's incarnation 853, which was the fifth of king Alfred, Burhred king of the Mercians, sent messengers, and prayed Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, to come and help him in reducing the midland Britons, who dwell between Mercia and the western sea, and who struggled against him most immoderately.
		In the same year the Saxons made peace with the pagans, on condition that they should take their departure, and they did so.
		After this, while the royal fleet were reposing, the pagans, who lived in the eastern part of England, assembled their ships, met the same royal fleet at sea in the mouth of the same river, and, after a naval battle, the pagans gained the victory.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /anglosaxon/alfred/assers_alfred_p1.htm (4463 words)

	Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - Wessex
		In a memorable victory, Sorbiodunum (Saxon Searoburh, modern Old Sarum) is captured from the Britons (of the proposed territory of Caer Gwinntguic, which is probably totally overrun at this time).
		The valleys of the Thame and Cherwell are ruled by the West Seaxe, as is the upper valley of the Ouse.
		At this time, the West Seaxe seem to be less a single united political entity and more a collection of tribes who acknowledge the king as the overall figure of authority, but perhaps not someone they have to follow without question.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsBritain/EnglandWessex.htm (2826 words)

	Narrative History of England (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Other kingdoms were those of the East Saxons (Essex); the Middle Saxons (Middlesex), and the West Saxons, (Wessex) destined to become the most powerful of all and one that eventually brought together all the diverse people of England (named for the Angles) into one single nation.
		An ominous entry in the "West Saxon Annals" however, tells us that in the year 834 "The heathen men harried Sheppey." During the centuries of inter-tribal warfare, the Saxons had not thought of defending their coasts.
		It was not long after the conversion of the Saxon peoples to Christianity that written laws began to be enacted in England to provide appropriate penalties for offenses against the Church (and therefore against God).
	www.britannia.com /history/narsaxhist.html (3824 words)

	The Saxons
		The Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and the eastern Netherlands (but not in the area that is known as Saxony today).
		A majority of the Saxons remained in continental Europe, forming from the 8th century the Duchy of Saxony.
		There is evidence that the Saxons, as well as Slavic tributaries like the Abodrites and the Wends, often provided troops to their Carolingian overlords.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/the-Saxons.htm (443 words)

	page33
		Saxon only became a national name for the southern territories because it was the custom of their British neighbors to refer to all the English as Saxons.
		In c150 A.D. Ptolemy wrote that the Saxons lived "on the neck of the Cimbric peninsula", territory that was actually part of Angeln.
		Procopius wrote that the Angles were so prolific that every year the surplus of their population would arrive from Britain to be resettled by the Franks in northern Germany.
	www.geocities.com /farthegn/page33.html (1066 words)

	Old English language
		Old English, a variant of West Germanic, in its older form, Old Saxon, was spoken by certain Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) of the regions comprising present-day southern Denmark and northern Germany who invaded Britain in the 5th century AD; the Jutes were the first to arrive, in 449, according to tradition.
		The four major dialects recognized in Old English are Kentish, originally the dialect spoken by the Jutes; West Saxon, a branch of the dialect spoken by the Saxons; and Northumbrian and Mercian, subdivisions of the dialects spoken by the Angles.
		By the 9th century, partly through the influence of Alfred, king of the West Saxons and the first ruler of all England, West Saxon became prevalent in prose literature.
	members.tripod.com /~babaev/tree/oenglish.html (447 words)

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