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    Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle...
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    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...
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  • A number of royal genealogies of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, collectively referred to as the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, have been preserved in a manuscript...
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    Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest...
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    51°30′45″N 00°07′21″W / 51.51250°N 0.12250°W / 51.51250; -0.12250 The Anglo-Saxon period of the history of London lasted from the 7th to the 11th centuries...
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    The Heptarchy were the seven petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England that flourished from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century until...
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    Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language, Old English, which was...
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    Ceawlin of Wessex (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leader of the first group of Saxons to come to the land which later became...
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  • the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the...
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    Harold Harefoot (category Anglo-Norse monarchs)
    fisherman and eventually reburied in a Danish cemetery in London. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports that Harold said that he was a son of Cnut the Great and...
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  • Parker Chronicle (The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) By the time of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the language had evolved into Late West Saxon, which...
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  • England Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England List of Anglo-Saxon deities Anglo-Saxon dress Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies Anglo-Saxon glass...
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    Ecgberht, King of Wessex (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    Northumbrian king at Dore. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle subsequently described Ecgberht as a bretwalda or 'wide-ruler' of Anglo-Saxon lands. Ecgberht was unable...
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    Bretwalda (category Anglo-Saxon monarchs)
    record comes from the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is given to some of the rulers of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms from the 5th century onwards who...
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  • Ælle of Sussex (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    the South Saxons, reigning in what is now called Sussex, England, from 477 to perhaps as late as 514. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælle and...
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    material in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (see below). It claims that Vortigern's son Vortimer commanded the Britons against Hengest's Saxons. Moreover, it...
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    Alfred the Great (category West Saxon monarchs)
    Ælfred; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest...
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    Wessex (redirect from West Saxon kingdom)
    sources for the history of Wessex are the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (the latter of which drew on and adapted an early...
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  • Ceol of Wessex (category West Saxon monarchs)
    by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List as King of Wessex for five to six years around 592 to 597 (the Chronicle) or 588...
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  • and the archaeologist Martin Welch described the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as "a product of the West Saxon court... concerned with glorifying the royal ancestry...
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    Garmonsway, G.N. (1972), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. London: Dent, p. 75-7. Garmonsway, G.N. (1972), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. London: Dent, p. 77. Todd...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Deorham
    by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as an important military encounter between the West Saxons and the Britons in the West Country in 577. The Chronicle depicts...
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    Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later...
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    In continental Saxon and Anglo-Saxon tradition, the son of Woden is called not Bealdor but Baldag (Saxon) and Bældæg, Beldeg (Anglo-Saxon), which shows...
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    Ubba (category Articles containing Anglo-Norman-language text)
    invading Viking army coalesced in Anglo-Saxon England. The earliest version of the 9th- to 12th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle variously describes the invading...
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    includes a commemoration of William." The Peterborough Chronicle, a continuation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, contains an account of the murder of William of...
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    Cerdic of Wessex (category Anglo-Saxon warriors)
    CHER-ditch; Latin: Cerdicus) is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first...
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    Harthacnut (category Anglo-Norse monarchs)
    generally accepted as king, Harthacnut being, in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, "forsaken because he was too long in Denmark", while Emma fled...
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    runes. Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians)...
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    or near-contemporary sources include different recensions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Eric's coinage, the Life of St Cathróe, and possibly skaldic poetry...
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