Articles related to "Saxon Kingdoms"

Denounced by the chronicler Gildas as beyond redemption, Maelgwn may have been the greatest of British Kings in the years following Arthur.

England (the land of the Angles) was born in the 7th century, a new country made up of a number of rival Kingdoms.

King Alfred the Great is the only monarch in British history to be called "The Great". During the Dark Age of Britain he would be a great warrior, leader, and statesman.

At the end of the fifth century, the Saxon warrior Allele carved out his own kingdom in Sussex. Soon after, he disappears from history, a possible victim of Arthur.

The largest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found has been discovered in a field in Staffordshire, north west England, by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector.

Emerging from the gloom of the Dark Ages, Cadwallon was one of the last of the British kings to overthrown an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom.

In 871, King Ethelred and Prince Alfred led the army of Wessex to one of the few early victories by the Anglo-Saxon's over the Danish Invaders.

Of all the kings in English history, Ethelred II has perhaps the worst reputation. By the end of his reign, he'd managed to lose almost all of England to Viking Invaders.

In 787, King Offa of Mercia ordered one of the largest construction projects in the History of Britain. Pieces of Offa's Dyke can still me seen today.

The King of Mercia in the early 7th Century, Penda made his mark in history mainly through the men he killed.

Augustine of Kent or Canterbury brought a lasting Christianity to the island of Britain.

Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy grew up in Dorset, England. Today visitors to the West County can see the region and the English country cottages that influenced his work.

Alfred the Great was the king of Wessex at the end of the 9th Century.

England is a tiny nation on the island of Great Britain. Yet in spite of its small size and population, it came to rule the world's oceans for nearly two hundred years.

The tale of the Watery Saint and the legend about how the weather conditions on 15th July will determine whether it will rain or be fair for the next forty days.