The History of England: The Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain

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12 күн бұрын

The Migration Period shook Europe and formed the basis of modern countries known to us today. In particular, it significantly affected the British Isles. Since the 5th century AD tribes - Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Frisians - arrived actively from the continent. On the islands, they were opposed by the native inhabitants, the Britons, who were not welcoming the conquerors. The confrontation, which went down in history as the Anglo-Saxon Invasion, began.
Over several centuries of wars, new kingdoms rose, becoming the fundamentals, over which modern England with its counties will one day emerge. The conquerors brought a new political system to the islands, along with a new religion - Christianity. It is from this period of the ancient history of England that the legends about King Arthur originate. Watch the video to get a grasp on the The Anglo-Saxon Invasion, also known as the Heptarchy.
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@aldosigmann419 9 күн бұрын

Excellent vid. Glad u mentioned us Frisians - we usually get short shrift which is mystifying when, as i understand, the Frisian language is considered the closest continental language there is to English...

@sebe2255 5 күн бұрын

You get shafted because the Frisians didn’t have their “own” kingdom. Probably because they would have been basically indistinguishable from Saxons. Even the Jutes get shafted and their kingdom was of Kent was dominant for a time

@urseliusurgel4365 2 күн бұрын

The Frisians wee not mentioned by Bede as being ancestral to the Anglo-Saxons, which is why they get little notice. There is evidence of Frankish involvement in the formation of the Anglo-Saxons, but they were also not mentioned.

@ThomasEhnert 7 күн бұрын

When will the British throw off the colonialism of and demand reparations from the inhabitants of Jutland, Schleswig, Holstein, and Saxony?

@raahauge 7 күн бұрын

That's unfair to the inhabitants to Jutland. After 793 (Lindisfarne) we tried to make up for it, by raiding the Anglo-Saxons for approx. 250 years. And you still want reparations? Once a cry-baby always a cry-baby, I guess. --- From Jutland (Jylland spelled correctly)

@ThomasEhnert 7 күн бұрын

Where’s my Danegeld?!?!

@raahauge 6 күн бұрын

@@ThomasEhnert The same place your other tax-payments are. Gone.

@neiloflongbeck5705 4 күн бұрын

You'll have to show that you were directly affected in a negative way first.

@raahauge 4 күн бұрын

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Nowadays affected negative emotionally is enough for reparations.

@Loremeister737 10 күн бұрын

*Can you do a video on the horn of Africa* *I'd like to see the Rise of cushites in east africa* *This is a seriously underrated history which includes The Land of punt, the macrobian kingdom, Adulis and rise of Axum, the Ancient Barbaria city states, Zagwe dynasty, Adal, ifat and abyssinia* If theirs a way to get in contact for this project I'm fuy capable of writing a script for this Really respect the work that goes into making these videos

@MasteIsIllmatic 10 күн бұрын

It would be hard to do this as in reality Amhara and Tigray etc are really Cushitic people who speak a Semitic language so does he do stories about them?

@Loremeister737 10 күн бұрын

@@MasteIsIllmatic it could work but just like how he broke down the differences between Saxons and angles we could get a description of the differences in cushite groups and those who evolved due to Semite migration Same with later galla migrations in the 16/17th century and earlier sidamic peoples and even earlier Eastern cushite groups we know today as somalis

@teslacoils5881 8 күн бұрын

Is there a bibliography or list of readings for this video? I’m very curious to read in detail about this period.

@joegagliardi3984 2 күн бұрын

Fantastic video!

@user-oc2xd8rr5h 6 күн бұрын

Wasn't the island named Pretanike by the greek explorer Pytheas in 4th century BCE? Celtic "pretani", "painted people" (picts), used to name the land "Pretanike", later transformed into "Bretanike" and later "Britain". The name was in use by greek and roman authors way before Brutus.

@WalesTheTrueBritons 6 күн бұрын

All correct - Modern name Britain comes from Prydain (Welsh) with mutations occurring to the P and D. Which turns it into Britain. It came into common use with the capture of the English crown by the Tudors in the late 1400s, early 1500s.

@SamDiMento 9 күн бұрын

This is a great summary of what can be a confusing time period.

@BlueKnight0007. 9 күн бұрын

Another great video! Would love to see this continued on to William the Conqueror and the Wars of the Roses and other periods of British history.

@WalesTheTrueBritons 6 күн бұрын

In those days, the term “British” wasn’t in use for the geography. It was fully used solely for the cultural Britons. So using British in the terms of geography is not historically accurate. The word Britain is accurate, but not British when talking about history on the island that occurred to England.

@BlueKnight0007. 5 күн бұрын

@@WalesTheTrueBritons Have you never read a book or article or comment before that uses anachronisms?

@nibiru27 10 күн бұрын

germanic conquerers were conquered by germanic conquerers themselves LOL!

@YaBoiBaxter2024 10 күн бұрын

Then (technically) Celts too (i.e. the Mixed-Celtic Normans, although they were still of mixed Scandinavian stock either way).

@WY-Commander 9 күн бұрын

What a mess 😅

@zacnewzealand 8 күн бұрын

I know right LOL again😅

@zacnewzealand 8 күн бұрын

@@WY-Commander do tell😂

@TaxTaxes 7 күн бұрын

happened in spain too

@Fabrysigurdsson 10 күн бұрын

Very good content!...Very well created

@danielsantiagourtado3430 10 күн бұрын

Love your content! Thanks For this! Alfred the Great please ❤❤❤❤

@user-gc3xg7xd5p 10 күн бұрын

Can you make a video about 100 years war!

@History_Mapped_Out 10 күн бұрын

Sure, but we need 1 month

@noahtylerpritchett2682 10 күн бұрын

I think Deirans and Bernicians were Frisians, and Lindsey were Rugians. While East and Middle Anglia, and Mercia are Angles. No changes for Saxons and Jutes. Jutes, And we by having genetic evidence for Franks, I think Pescaetia were Franks. North of them are Saxons. North of Saxons are Angles, North of Angles are Franks, North of Franks are Rugians. And north of Rugians are Frisians. And the Geats were Aristocracy all over all Germanic kingdoms. I think.

@scottingram580 6 күн бұрын

DNA research shows there was no population replacement with over 65% of English people have Celtic DNA making England the largest Celtic nation.

@johnw574 6 күн бұрын

Some parts had population replacement and some parts were slowly dominated over centuries and the culture there changed slowly. It was a long process and didn't happen overnight.

@mcdrogo 5 күн бұрын

What about only 35% Anglo Saxon DNA do you not understand. There is no genetic or archeological evidence for extermination, genocide or population replacement in England. All the academic evidence shows that it was integration, not extermination.

@mcdrogo 5 күн бұрын

Also included in that 35% are the later waves of Danes of the Viking invasions several hundred years later. This video is myth and not fact.

@MeatFeast-qk7nd 4 күн бұрын

I heard we were black at some stage, replaced from the stone age dudes who were maybe white. Don't know 😂 wasn't there. 😂

@noahtylerpritchett2682 2 күн бұрын

Why does everyone ignore the October 23rd 2022 study?

@andrew_91 9 күн бұрын

your content is amazing thank you so much mate!!

@chrisb4003 8 күн бұрын

Fantastic that mate, great work

@oiartsun 5 күн бұрын

Why the Cyrillic spellings at 19:20 and 19:37?

@nozmulm 5 күн бұрын

The Danes were also Anglo Saxon who came and created the Danelaw

@seanmacguire6898 4 күн бұрын

Danes aren’t Anglos nor Saxons. Danes are Danes

@WalesTheTrueBritons 7 күн бұрын

Arthur most definitely existed, and there were two. The first who fought under the British-Romano Emperor Macsen Wledig (Magnus Maximus) and the second being Arthwys so Meurig of Glamorgan and Gwent. We have Genealogies that outline several centuries worth of Kings in Wales who all were related to these Arthurs. Even later English kings used their connection to Wales in order to justify invading and ruling Wales. Btw, those fighting under Macsen were the ones who founded France as a nation, and their first king was Clovis. As for the Bretons, they were already there by the time the Anglo Saxons turn up in Britain. With Conan being their first king.

@mumblingmercian 3 күн бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. Proud Mercian, Penda was gigabased.

@neiloflongbeck5705 4 күн бұрын

You forgot that British place namesarenot always pronounced as spelt. For example the "gh" in Bamburgh is not pronounced.

@mkdir1490 7 күн бұрын

What happened to the picts?

@fetalparisite 5 күн бұрын

They became the clans up in the lands of Angus.

@SkyHighMelody 2 күн бұрын

How to pronounce Æthelred? The first letter æ sounds a bit like "AY in say, or AE" english people just pronounce it "A" most of the time Its funny how Angles/english people used to have the letter Æ, but now only Denmark and Norway has it

@DaltonAScherman 10 күн бұрын

great video!!

@parasf2984 10 күн бұрын

Great video

@urseliusurgel4365 2 күн бұрын

Point of accuracy, not all the area north of Hadrian's wall was inhabited by PIcts, in what is now Southern Scotland there were British, not Pictish, tribes, they included the Votadini in the Edinburgh area, the Selgovae, the Novantae and the Damnonii. These tribes were culturally and linguistically - they spoke Brittonic, not Pictish - the same as tribes further south, like the Brigantes, Catuvelauni or the Corieltauvi, who were conquered by Rome.

@mercianthane2503 6 сағат бұрын

The story of Cerdic and Cynric is probably not of germanic origin, both names suggest a brythonic origin: Coroticus and Cunorix. Most likely they were local british petty chieftains who hired mercenaries of saxon origin to defend them from british and pictish raiders. The best way to pay those guys was giving them land and marrying their daughters. So the origins of Wessex is most likely brythonic. Supposedely Cerdic and Cynric slew a certain Natanleod, a british warlord, and took his lands. But if Cerdic was a british chieftain, most likely he was using saxon mercenaries to overthrow Natanleod's overlordship and expand his own lands.

@pablojosemoralesidrovo9636 8 күн бұрын

Hey History Mapped Out, for the next video can you make about the Viking invasions on England that caused the unification of England? And later, can you make the Norman conquest and aftermath? A series about the history of England.

@trevormorgan2636 4 күн бұрын

So why was Wessex Old English so similar to Frisian?

@urseliusurgel4365 2 күн бұрын

Because both derived from a common ancestor, called "North Sea Germanic" or Ingaevonic.

@HegyCsill 2 күн бұрын

Shakespeare is so great..he new all this in the Hamlet... But Shakespeare himself may have been an Italian Catholic descent.

@SandileNgwenya-gv7nx 2 күн бұрын

He was English and he was an Anglican

@NicolasCab 10 күн бұрын

This is top content

@embreis2257 4 күн бұрын

6:40 Ambrosius Aurelianus: here we have the historical figure most likely to be the inspiration for *king Arthur* . his Latin moniker suggests native origins in contrast to the Germanic invaders. as the Romans shaped their province Britannia for about 450yrs we can assume him to descent from a landowning family who turned local warlord once the Roman legions and administration left the island in 411 AD. he probably had more Roman than native Brythonic blood. the figure of Merlin/Myrrdin is a modern (12th century) frabrication to separate aspects of his persona/legend not considered chivalric enough for a British king in the middle ages.

@mercianthane2503 6 сағат бұрын

Ambrosius Aurelianus was most likely not the inspiration of King Arthur. There already is a legendary character based on Ambrosius: Emrys Wlegid, made brother of Uther Pendragon by Geoffrey of Monmouth, thus uncle of Arthur. Usually Ambrosius is connected with a brythonic war chieftain called Riothamus who was active aroun 470 AD. He was helping the romans against Euric, king of the visigothis, and crossed the english channel to aid his allies. He was betrayed and defeated, and most likely returned to Britain.

@Judge_Magister 7 күн бұрын

You forgot the Frisians in the tumbnail

@danielwalker6653 10 күн бұрын

There is only one document, written hundreds of years later which suggests Ambrosius Aurelianus even existed. Sorry there's a solid chance King Arthur has no basis in reality

@WalesTheTrueBritons 7 күн бұрын

One Document? The Harlean genealogies I presume you are talking about? There is definitely enough evidence to suggest he, or should I say they existed. The first indeed being Ambrosius, he who fought the Romans in Europe under Macsen Wledig. The One who fought the Anglo Saxons was Arthwys Ap Meurig of Glamorgan and Gwent. Direct descendant of the first. There is considerably more evidence for the second one, as we have very detailed recordings of both his son Morgan (Morcant) and his Father Muerig (Maurice).

@Gorboduc 6 күн бұрын

The best book I know developing the "Real Arthur" side is The Age Of Arthur by John Morris. It's a massive book and quite an education, even if you wind up disagreeing with his thesis.

@WalesTheTrueBritons 6 күн бұрын

Blood of Avalon, King Arthur Conspiracy, there is only a few Arthurian books which focus on the historical origins and records from Wales.

@embreis2257 4 күн бұрын

*Gildas* mentions him by name! the guy was already born when the battle of Badon took place. definitely not 'hundreds of years later'.

@dave8323 5 күн бұрын

Terrible pronunciation

@bhess1212 9 күн бұрын

Great video! Boy, people killed each other a lot back then!

@cliftonfurney5083 Күн бұрын

Now they just hurt feelings. Lol

@elitacilan891 2 күн бұрын

it was like ancient americas

@Feyenoord-el8ip 7 күн бұрын

why didn't the Dutch go?

@sebe2255 5 күн бұрын

Too busy in Gaul

@Kliscian 4 күн бұрын

there was no "dutch" at that time only frisians and franks

@urseliusurgel4365 2 күн бұрын

The Dutch language derives from Old Low Franconian, as spoken by the early Franks, so they are essentially Franks who didn't become Latinised into the French (or Walloons).

@Feyenoord-el8ip 2 күн бұрын

@kliscian no really, you know what I mean

@sebe2255 2 күн бұрын

@@Feyenoord-el8ip Yes and the “Dutch” aka the Franks, were too busy invading Gaul

@owentaylor9884 5 күн бұрын

So many amateur mistakes that you only have less than half a story.

@DaveSCameron Күн бұрын

Just try and imagine what the world would look like today if it wasn’t for the Scouse people who saved the country of Albion from all foreign invaders and its to those Scouse men that Great Britain owes them everything they have in their name today. 👍

@ioan_jivan 9 күн бұрын

Now say that three times

@elijahmcmurtrie268 3 күн бұрын

This was generated by AI

@natheriver8910 8 күн бұрын

Very interesting

@uhadme 7 күн бұрын

The facts of myths... perfect.

@mcdrogo 5 күн бұрын

A lot of myth dressed as fact. Poorly researched. This will be deleted just as my other critical post was.

@mrsmiley51 5 күн бұрын

Britons didn't come from. Brutus of Troy. They are descended from Nemed who is descended from Japheth. The Nemedians split into 3 groups one went to Denmark and became the Tuatha de Danann, one went to Greece and became the Fir Bolg and the third went to Britain and were the ancestors of all the ancient Britons.

@larshansen4557 4 күн бұрын

So the wiking age is removed 500 year forward 😂😂

@johnw574 6 күн бұрын

This was a disaster to all of mankind

@noahtylerpritchett2682 10 күн бұрын

From linguistics, there is evidence that at least 6 villages had a Slavonic settlement. And a few that were Rugian, and genetic evidence Franks and Geats from Belgium and Sweden also settled in Britain. The 6 Slavic settlements one was at least 6000 individuals. The Germanic word for the Slavs at the time was Wend. The 6 villages are 1. Wendover (Buckinghamshire) 2. Wenden Lofts (Essex) 3. Wennington (Cambridgeshire) 4. Wenlock (Shropshire) 5. Wendlebury (Oxfordshire) 6. Wentworth (South Yorkshire) They would have no genetic or linguistic impact as at least a million Germanic speakers would assimilate and outbreed them. There were also likely Rugians as well. Bede admitted the Rugians, And place names Admit the Slavs. But Geats and Franks were genetically proven to of also arrived into Britain with the Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisians.

@TishoYanchev 8 күн бұрын

Funny how you say Germanic speakers implying that their connection is just the language, but then you say Slavs implying they are an ethnic group.

@noahtylerpritchett2682 8 күн бұрын

@@TishoYanchev the Germanic arrivals are bound by Germanic ancestry from Sweden. A 2024 study proves all Germanic ancestry is from a swedish ethnogenesis homeland. As for my more ethnographic usage of the Slavs. I only loosely said wends because who knows what tribe they came from. And of the million Germanic immigrants there's only 6000 Slavs who'd assimilate early on and are genetically irrelevant but all the same kin contrast to several Germanic immigrant lineages who all do share common ancestry.

@sebe2255 5 күн бұрын

This makes no sense lmao, Wenlock for one derived from a Welsh word. You can’t just look at modern spellings for places and assume that anything with Wend in it = Slavic

@esioanniannaho5939 12 сағат бұрын

Yep totally B0011ix BS. The Celts like Boudicca didn't think that they were Roman nor did the Druids of the holy isle of Anglesey who the Romans slaughtered. Wise up Yankee Anglo Saxons. Or as Gaeilge Sassanach !