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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 9C-1154. Records early British history.
Aelfric. c955-1010. Anglo-Saxon writer. Love of the Saints.
Anglo-Saxons. Group of Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in 5C. Ruled to 1066. Angles. Heptarchy.
Danegeld. Anglo-Saxon tax 991-1012 to buy off Norse attacks. Heregeld, 1012-51 to raise A-S army vs Norse.
Ealdred. -1069. Anglo-Saxon archbishop of York 1060-: crowned William the Conqueror.
East Anglia. 6C Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c870 Denmark. 917 England.
Edgar Aetheling. 1050-1130. Anglo-Saxon prince who submitted to William I.
Edington, Battle. 878. King Alfred, Wessex only Anglo-Saxon kingdom to withstand Danes.
Edward the Confessor, St. c1003-66. Anglo Saxon king 1041-. Founded Westminster Abbey. Conquered Wales. Died without heir, prompting Norman Invasion.
England. c1800BC Beaker folk. 8C BC Celt. 150BC Belgae. 55BC-407 Rome. 5C Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. 9C Dane(N,E). 10C A-S/Dane. 1042 Anglo-Saxon. 1066 Norman. 1204 -Normandy. 1707 Great Britain. 1801 United Kingdom.
Ethelbert. 552-616. King of Kent 560-. First Christian Anglo-Saxon king. first extant A-S law code.
Heptarchy. 5-9C. Seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England: Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, Mercia, E. Anglia, Northumbria. Frequent wars.
Mercia. 7C-877. Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England. Conquered by Danes, Wessex.
Northumbria. Anglo-Saxon kingdom. c605 Bernicia + Deira = Northumbria. 9C Danish. 944 +England.
Sussex. 477- Anglo-Saxon kingdom. 9C Dominated by Wessex.
Wessex. 495- Anglo-Saxon kingdom in south England. 829 +Mercia. 927 Conquered Danes to rule England. Ethelred. Alfred. Athelstan.
Witan. Anglo-Saxon king’s council.
Caffaro di Caschifellone. c1080-1166. Genoese crusader, wrote chronicles.
Cheever, John. 1912-82. US writer of middle-class America. Wapshot Chronicle 1957.
Froissart, Jean. c1333-1400. French Chronicles of the Hundred Years War 1391.
Joinville, Jean de. 1224-1317. French chronicler, advised St Louis. Histoire 1309.
Lewis, C.S. 1898-1963. English fantasy writer, Christian apologist. Chronicles of Narnia 1950-6.
Rajatarangini. 1148. Historical chronicle of Kashmir India.
Salimbene di Adam. 1221-90. Parmese chronicler of 13C life.