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Anglo-Saxon Expansion in Britain
In the 6th century CE, after Rome's withdrawal from Britain, Angles, Saxons and Jutes settled and pushed north and east, gradually replacing or assim…
Timeline
- 500–530Kent and East Anglia · EnglandGermanic tribes continued to migrate along the North Sea and English Channel, establishing early kingdoms such as Kent and Essex on the southeastern coast, gradually consolidating control over local land through farming, herding and fortified settlements.
- 530–600Central and southern England · EnglandSaxon forces pushed west, and kingdoms such as Wessex and Mercia successively formed, contending long-term with remnant British polities. Local victories such as the Battle of Badon Hill temporarily checked expansion, but by the end of the 6th century the Anglo-Saxon political map was essentially formed.
Sources
- Gildas, De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae — Gildas https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/works-of-gildas/
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People — Bede https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/bede-book1.asp