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“According to Bede, ‘the Anglo -Saxons landed in Britain from three long ships in the reign of the Emperor Marcian; the people who came over belonging to three of the most powerful tribes in Germany, that is to say, the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes.

The Kentish -men and the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight derive their origin from the Jutes; those of Sussex, Middlesex, and Wessex from the Saxons; and the East-Angles, the Mid-Angles, the Mercians, and the whole Northumbrian race, with the rest of the English population, are descended from the Angles, that is, they sprung from the country called Angle.’

It is reported that two brothers, Hengist and Horsa, were their first chiefs. They were the sons of Victigils, whose father was Witta, the son of Vecta, the son of Woden; from which stock the royal line of many provinces derived its origin.

(A.D 451- 454)-(A.D 455).-Hengist and Horsa fought against Vortigern, king of the Britons, at a place called Ægeles -threp [Ayles ford], and, although Horsa was slain in the battle, Hengist gained the victory, and after these events reigred jointly with his son Esc.

(A.D.456) -(A.D 457)-Hengist and Esc engaged in battle with the Britons at a place called Creccanford [Crayford] and put four thousand of them to the sword; the rest of the Britons then abandoned Kent, and fled to London in great terror.

(A.D. 458-464)-(A.D.465)-Hengist and Esc fought against the Britons near Wippedesfleote [Ebbsfleet], which means the place where Wipped crossed the water. They slew twelve chiefs of the enemy’s army, with many others, while on their side only one thane, whose name was Wipped, fell in the battle .

(A.D.466-472)-(A.D.473)-Hengist and Cesc fought with the Britons for the fourth time, and, gaining the victory, took spoils without number; in which battle the Britons fled before the Angles as they would from fire.

(A.D.474 -476.7)-( A.D.-477)-Ælla and his three sons, Cymen, Wencing, and Cissa came to Britain in three ships, from which they landed at a place called Cymenes-ora, and there slew many of the Britons, and drove the rest into the forest called Andredes-leage.“

(A.D.478-484)-(A.D.485)-Ælla, fighting the Britons near Mearcredes burnan , that is Mearcrede’s Brook, slew numbers of them and put the rest to flight.

(A.D.486-487)- (A.D.488)-Hengist, having governed the kingdom of Kent with the greatest vigour during thirty-four years, ended his life. His son Esc succeeded to the throne, and reigned twenty-four years.

(A.D.489, 490)-(A.D.491.)-St. Patrick, Archbishop of Ireland, made a blessed end, aged one hundred and twenty-two years. Ælla, with his son Cissa, stormed Andredes-ceaster, after a long siege, and put all the inhabitants to the sword, from the eldest to the youngest.

(A.D.492-494)-(A.D.495)-This year, two chiefs, namely, Cerdic and his son Cynric, crossed over to Britain with five ships, and, landing at a place called Cerdices-ora (Yarmouth) fought the Britons the same day, and having defeated them put them to flight.

(A.D.508)-Cerdic and his son Cynric slew Natanleod, king of the Britons, and five thousand men, with the edge of the sword; from that king all the country as far as Cerdices-ford derived its name of Natanleod.

(A.D.509 -513)-(A.D.514)-The West-Saxons, sailing to Britain with three ships, landed at Cerdices-ora . Their chiefs, Stuf and Wihtgar, were Cerdic’s nephews. Shortly afterwards they engaged in battle with the Britons, some of whom they slew, and put the rest to flight.

(A.D.515 - 518)-(A.D.519)-Cerdic and Cynric began to reign [in Wessex], and the same year they fought and conquered the Britons at Cerdices-ford.

(A.D.522-526)-(A.D.527)-Cerdic and Cynric, for the fourth time, fought with the Britons at Cerdices-leage .

(A.D.528, 529)-(A.D.530)-Cerdic and Cynric conquered the Isle of Wight, which they gave to their nephews, Stuf and Wihtgar; a few men were slain in Wihtgara -birig, [Carisbrook Castle ].

(A.D.531-533)-(A.D.534)-Cerdic, the first king of the West-Saxons, departed this life; and his son Cynric was, after his death, sole king for twenty-six years.

(A.D. 544)-Wihtgar, the nephew of Cerdic, king of the Charford in Hampshire West-Saxons died and was buried at Wihtgara-birig, that is, Wihtgar’s town.

(A.D.548-551)-(A.D-552)-Cynric, king of the West-Saxons, fought with the Britons, and routed them at a place called Seares-byrig: his father was Cerdic, who was the son of Elesa, who was son of Esla, who was son of Gewis, who was son of Wig, who was son of Frèawine, who was son of Freothegar, who was son of Brand, who was son of Bealdeag, who was son of Woden

(A.D.560.)-Ceaulin, the son of Cynric, succeeding to the kingdom of the West Saxons, reigned thirty-three years

Source: [Chronicle written by Florence of Worcester]

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“A.D. 1035. This year died King Knute at Shaftesbury, on the second day before the ides of November; and he is buried at Winchester in the old minster. He was king over all England very near twenty winters. Soon after his decease, there was a council of all the nobles at Oxford; wherein Earl Leofric and almost all the thanes north of the Thames and the naval men in London, chose Harold to be governor of all England, for himself and his brother Hardacnute, who was in Denmark.

Earl Godwin, and all the eldest men in Wessex, withstood it as long as they could; but they could do nothing against it. It was then resolved that Elfgiva, the mother of Hardacnute, should remain in Winchester with the household of the king her son. They held all Wessex in hand, and Earl Godwin was their chief man. Some men said of Harold that he was the son of King Knute and of Elfgive the daughter of Alderman Elfelm; but it was thought very incredible by many men.

He was, nevertheless, full king over all England. Harold himself said that he was the son of Knute and Elfgive the Hampshire lady; though it was not true; but he sent and ordered to be taken from her all the best treasure that she could not hold, which King Knute possessed; and she nevertheless abode there continually within the city as long as she could.”

Source: CARRUTHERS, Bob. “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Illustrated and Annotated.”

Fan cast: Timothee Chamalet as King Harald/Harold I of England.

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On this day in History: death of Cnut the Great, king of England.

#Cnut the great #vikings valhalla

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The second daughter, named doña Juana, is, for her sex and age, extremely well versed in reciting and even composing verses; she is 14 years old, and she enjoys humanities very much; her tutor, who is an elderly and venerable friar of the Order of Preachers, praised her to me greatly and wanted me to hear her speak, but I was not able to stay longer in Madrid.

- Jerónimo Münzer, Viaje por España y Portugal en Los años 1494 y 1495 - versión del latín por Julio Puyol

She [Juana] always liked ostentation and bright colors, and we know she had whatever she desired. In the account books of Gonzalo de Baeza, we can see that the most significant expenses of the Infanta’s household concerned fabrics, hats, ornaments, and decorations of all kinds. She liked crimson, the most expensive of all, which prodigiously increased the expenses on fabrics and clothing. Like her siblings, she had at her service a tailor, Fernando de Torrijos, and a shoemaker, Juan Sahún, who took care of all the dressmaking. In 1488 (let’s remember she was only 9 years old at the time), she needed a caravan with mules to transport all her things and attires, and the mules also were luxuriously adorned with splendorous reins and blankets of great quality. When she did not travel on a mule’s back, or in a cart, or in similar means of transportation, doña Juana liked to be transported on top of a board, as in a sedan chair, and we know it was done frequently because she enjoyed it, and in order to comply with her royal wish, as well as, because doña Isabel did not restrict these signs of ostentation for her children, considering it added her court and them themselves prestige. On the other hand, doña Juana was in no way easy to handle; her mother thought she was a bit stubborn because when she had made some decision, she insisted on it with obstinacy. Perhaps it shows she did not lack personality.

- Vicenta Márquez de la Plata, El trágico destino de los hijos de los Reyes Católicos

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“Roger of Hoveden: The Last Days and Death of Henry II, 1189, from The Chronicle.~

In the year of grace 1189, being the thirty-fifth and last year of the reign of king Henry, son of the empress Matilda, the said Henry was at Saumur, in Anjou, on the day of the Nativity of our Lord, which fell on the Lord’s day, and there he kept that festival; although many of his earls and barons, deserting him, had gone over to the king of France and earl Richard against him.

After the feast of Saint Hilary, the truce being broken, which existed between the before-named kings, the king of France, and earl Richard and the Bretons, (with whom the said king of France and earl Richard had entered into covenants, and had given sureties that if they should make peace with the king of England, they would not omit to include them in that peace) made a hostile incursion into the territories of the king of England, and ravaged them in every direction.

On this, the cardinal John of Anagni came to the before named kings in behalf of our lord the pope, and sometimes with kind words, sometimes with threats, exhorted them to make peace. Moved by his urgent entreaties, the said kings, by the inspiration of the Divine grace, gave security that they would abide by the decision of himself, and of the archbishops of Rheims, Bourges, Rouen, and Canterbury, and named as the day for a conference to be held near La Ferte Bernard, the octave of Pentecost; on which the before-named cardinal, and the four archbishops above-mentioned, pronounced sentence of excommunication against all, both clergy and laity, who should stand in the way of peace being made between the said kings, the persons of the kings alone excepted.

On the day of the conference, the king of France, and the king of England, earl Richard, the cardinal John of Anagni, and the four archbishops before mentioned, who had been chosen for the purpose, and the earls and barons of the two kingdoms, met for a conference near La Ferte Bernard.

At this conference, the king of France demanded of the king of England, his sister Alice to be given in marriage to Richard, earl of Poitou, and that fealty for his dominions should be sworn to the said Richard, and that his brother John, assuming the Gross, should set out for Jerusalem.

To this the king of England made answer that he would never consent to such a proposal, and offered the king of France, if he should think fit to assent thereto, to give the said Alice in marriage to his son John, with all the matters previously mentioned more at large, more fully and more completely than the king demanded.

The king of France would not agree to this; on which, putting an end to the conference, they separated, mutually displeased. However, the cardinal John of Anagni declared that if the king of France did not come to a complete arrangement with the king of England, he would place the whole of his territory under interdict; to which the king of France made answer, that he should not dread his sentence and that he cared nothing for it, as it was supported upon no grounds of justice.

For he said, it was not the duty of the Church of Rome to punish the kingdom of France by its sentence or in any other manner, if the king of France should think fit to punish any vassals of his who had strewn themselves undeserving, and rebellious against his sway, for the purpose of avenging the insult to his crown; he also added, that the before-named cardinal had already smelt the sterling coin of the king of England. Then closing the interview, the king of France departed thence, and took La Ferte Bernard, and then Montfort, and next Malestroit, Beaumont, and Balim.

After this he came to Le Mans, on the Lord’s day, pretending that he was going to set out for Tours on the ensuing Monday; but when the king of England and his people seemed to have made themselves at ease as to the further progress of the king of France, he drew out his forces in battle array, for the purpose of making an assault upon the city.

This being perceived by Stephen de Tours, the seneschal of Anjou, he set fire to the suburbs. The fire, however, rapidly gaining strength and volume, running along the walls, communicated with the city; seeing which, the Franks approached a bridge of stone, where Geoffrey de Burillun and many with him of the party of the king of England met them with the intention of pulling down the bridge; on which, a desperate conflict took place, and a great part of the armies were slain on both sides, and in the conflict, the before named Geoffrey was taken prisoner, and wounded in the thigh; many others also of the king of England’s army were taken, while the rest immediately tool to flight, with the intention of betaking themselves to the city, but the Franks entered it with them.

The king of England seeing this, and being in a state of desperation, contrary to his promise when he came, took to flight with seven hundred of his knights. For he had promised the inhabitants of that city that he would not forsake them, giving it as his reason, that his father rested there, as also, the circumstance that he himself was born there, and loved that city more than all others.

The king of France pursued him for three miles; and if the stream which the Franks forded had not been very wide and deep, they would hare pursued them as they feed with such swiftness, that they would have been all taken prisoners. In this flight, many of the Welch were slain.

The king of England, however, with a few of his men, got to Chinon and there took refuge within the fort. The rest of the household of the king of England who were surviving, took refuge within the tower of Le Mans; immediately on which, the king of France laid siege to the town, and, partly through his miners, partly the assaults of his engines, the tower was surrendered to him within three days, together with thirty knights and sixty men at arms.

Marching thence, he took Mont Double by surrender of the castle and its lord. For the viscount of this castle had been the means, indeed, the especial cause, of this catastrophe; for, lying in ambush, he had, armed, fallen upon Geoffrey, the earl of Vendôme, who was unarmed, and had wounded him so seriously, that at first his life was despaired of, though by the grace of God he afterwards entirely recovered from the effects thereof.

The king of France was the more vexed at his acting thus, because the before-named viscount had strictly bound himself to the king of France, by a promise that he would injure none of his people either in going or returning, or annoy him while engaged in the siege of Le Mans. The king departing thence, the castle of Trou was surrendered to him, together with Roche l’Eveque, Montoire, Chateau Carcere, Chateau Loire, Chateau Chaumont, Chateau d’Amboise, and Chateau de Roche Charbon.

At length, on the sixth day of the week after the festival of the Nativity of Saint John, on the day after the feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul the Apostles, the king of France came to Tours. On the Lord’s day next after this, Philip, earl of Flanders, William, archbishop of Rheims, and Hugh, duke of Burgundy, came to the king of England, who was then at Saumur, for the purpose of making peace between him and the king of France.

The king of France had, however, sent him word before they set out, that from Chateau Saint Martin, whither he had betaken himself by fording the Loire, he should make an attack upon the city. Accordingly, on the ensuing Monday, at about the third hour, applying their scaling ladders to the walls on the side of the Loire, which on account of the small quantity of the water, was much contracted and reduced, the city was taken by storm, and in it eighty knights and a hundred men at arms. To their great disgrace, on the one side, the Poitevins were planning treachery against their liege lord the king of England, and on the other the Bretons, who had joined the king of France, and had obtained from him letters patent, to the effect that he would never make peace with the king of England unless the Bretons were included in the treaty.

Accordingly, the king of England, being reduced to straits, made peace with Philip, king of France, on the following terms:

“Upon this, the before-named king of France and king of England, and Richard, earl of Poitou, with their archbishops, bishops, earls, and barons, about the time of the feast of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, held a conference between Tours and Arasie, where the king of England wholly placed himself under the control and at the will of the king of France.

The king of England then did homage to the king of France, although at the beginning of the war he had renounced the lordship of the king of France, and the king of France had quitted all claim of his homage. It was then provided by the king of France that Alice, his sister, whom the king of England had in his charge, should be given up and placed in the charge of one of five persons, of whom earl Richard should make choice.

It was next provided by the king of France that security should be given by the oath of certain men of that land that his said sister should be delivered up to earl Richard on his return from Jerusalem, and that earl Richard should receive the oath of fealty from his father’s subjects on both sides the sea, and that none of the barons or knights who had in that war withdrawn from the king of England and come aver to earl Richard should again return to the king of England, except in the last month before his setting out for Jerusalem; the time of which setting out was to be Mid-Lent, at which period the said kings and earl Richard were to be at Vezelay.

That all the burgesses of the vills, demesne of the king of England, should be unmolested throughout all the lands of the king of France, and should enjoy their own customary laws and not be impleaded in any matter, unless they should be guilty of felony. The king of England was to pay to the king of France twenty thousand marks of silver; and all the barons of the king of England were to make oath that if the king of England should refuse to observe the said covenants, they would hold with the king of France and earl Richard, and would aid them to the best of their ability against tile king of England.

The king of France and earl Richard were to hold in their hands the city of Le Mans, the city of Tours, Chateau Loire, and the castle of Trou; or else, if the king of England should prefer it, the king of France and earl Richard would hold the castle of Gisors, the castle of Pasci, and the castle of Novacourt, until such time as all the matters should be completed as arranged above by the king of France.

While the before-named kings were conferring in person hereon, the Lord thundered over them, and a thunderbolt fell between the two, but did them no injury; they were, however, greatly alarmed, and separated accordingly, while all who were with them were astonished that the thunder had been heard so suddenly, seeing that no lowering clouds had preceded it.

After a short time the kings again met together for a conference, on which a second time thunder was heard, still louder and d more terrible than before, the sky retaining its original sereneness; in consequence of which, the king of England, being greatly alarmed, would have fallen to the ground from the horse on which he was mounted, if he had not been supported by the hands of those who were standing around him.

From that time he entirely placed himself at the will of the king of France, and concluded peace on the terms above written, requesting that the names of all those who, deserting him, had gone over to the king of France and earl Richard, should be committed to writing and given to him. This being accordingly done, he found the name of his son John written at the beginning of the list.

Surprised at this beyond measure, he came to Chinon, and, touched with grief at heart, cursed the day on which he was born, and pronounced upon his sons the curse of God and of himself, which he would never withdraw, although bishops and other religious men frequently admonished him so to do.

Being sick even unto death, he ordered himself to be carried into the church, before the altar, and there devoutly received the communion of the body and blood of Christ; and after confessing his sins, and being absolved by the bishop and clergy, he departed this life in the thirty-fifth year of his reign, on the octave of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul, being the fifth day of the week; after a reign of thirty-four years, seven months, and four days. After his death, having plundered him of all his riches, all forsook him, so true it is that just as flies seek honey, wolves the carcass, and ants corn, this crew followed not the man, but his spoils. At last however, his servants returned, and buried him with royal pomp. On the day after his death, when he was being carried out for burial in the Church of the Nuns at Fontevraud, earl Richard, his son and heir, came to meet him, and, smitten with compunction, wept bitterly; immediately on which the blood flowed in streams from the nostrils of the body at the approach of his son. His son, however, proceeded with the body of his father to the abbey of Fontevraud, and there buried him in the choir of the Nuns, and thus it was that he was "among the veiled women as one wearing the veil.”

Source: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/1189hoveden.asp (written in early 13th century)

mary-tudor

On this day in History, Henry II of England died.

#henry ii #henry ii of england #king henry ii of england

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Hugues Capét & Adélaide d’Aquitaine: king and queen of the Franks.

#capetians #capet dynasty #house of capét #house of capet #Hugh of Franks

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(Sir Marhalt & His Lady)

"To last for a lifetime

The darkness around me

Shores of a solar sea

Oh how I wish to go down with the sun

Sleeping

Weeping

With you"

#arthurian mythology

kingedwardvi

Jane Seymour, Queen of England, announces the birth of her son, the future English king Edward VI, at St Edward’s Day (12 October)

“Right trusty and well beloved, we greet you well, and for as much as by the inestimable goodness and grace of Almighty God, we be delivered and brought in childbed of a Prince, conceived in most lawful matrimony between my lord the King's Majesty and us, doubting not but that for the love and affection which you bear unto us and to the commonwealth of this realm, the knowledge thereof should be joyous and glad tidings unto you, we have thought good to certify you of the same, to the intent you might not only render unto God condign thanks and prayers for so great a benefit but also pray for the long continuance and preservation of the same here in this life to the honor of God, joy and pleasure of my lord the King and us, and the universal weal, quiet and tranquility of this whole realm.

Given under our signet at my lord's manor of Hampton Court the 12th day of October.”

#jane seymour #tudor england

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henryfitzempress

Favourite Plantagenet queens: Aliénor de Provence (1223-1291) (1/5)

#Eleanor of Provence #Queen of England

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23 March 1430: Marguerite d'Anjou is born at Lorraine, France. She later became Queen of England by marrying King Henry VI.

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Happy birthday, my queen!

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She was known as the “nine-day queen” and was used as a pawn in the ruthless ambition that defined the Tudor court. But for centuries, historians have struggled to find a single portrait of Lady Jane Grey that was painted during her lifetime.

Now, research by English Heritage suggests a mysterious portrait depicts the royal who reigned over England for just over a week in the summer of 1553, and who was executed less than a year later

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