The Celtic retrieve

After the Romans retrieve, Great Britain went back to

Barbarism.
How did this happened?
Excidio Britanniae (The ruin of Britain) written
around 550 by Gildas:
 Picts and Scots moved southwards with no great
opposition.
Britans wanted to thorow them away from their
territories.
The Celtic retrieve
Britons asked Aecius for help.
Was not sent, since the Romans were fighting the
Goths (front of North Italy) and the Huns (front of
West Italy).
Vortigern, a Britan chief, asked the Jutes for Help.
Jutland (Jylland) is located between Schleswig
(Anglos) and Saxony (Saxons).
Arrival of the Saxons.
Jute Chiefs Hengist (Stallion) and Horsa (Horse)
responded the call.
By 456 they landed in Kent (449 according to Beda).
Instead of helping the Britons against the Picts, they
ended up conquering the territory.
This gave birth to the Legend of Vortigern.
Arrival of the Saxons
Other Germanic tribes followed the Path of the Jutes.
By 477 Saxons cross over Calais and landed in the
south part of England.
Founded the Three Saxon Kingdoms (Wessex, Essex
and Sussex)
The Battle of Mount Badon
Gildas, a historian, describes a great battle ca. 500
a.D. in Mount Badon.
The only Battle Britons won.
The Britain chief Ambrosius Aurelianus (Roman-
Briton) defeated the Germanics.
Nennius (800 a.D.), reproduces the story giving birth
to the epoch of legends:
The Legend of Mount Badon
Ambrosius is a magician servant of Vortigern who
commands the Britons with the help of a royal
commander named Arthur.
Arthur fights twelve battles, winning the all against
the Saxons.
Arthur becomes a King and establishes his Kingdom
in Camelot.
In reality, Saxons defeated the Britons badly.
The arrival of the Anglos
Much later, ca. 540 the Anglos landed in the former
Icenii land and founded a series of Kingdoms along
the Thames.
Founded: Anglia, Mercia (Marc), Deira and Bernicia.
Both, the Anglos and Saxons conquered the Jute
terrotories.
Considered themselves of the same race.
The Anglos dominated the Island with their 4
Kingdoms and soon began Great Britain to be know as
the Angle-land.
The name of England can only be applied to the
territories that were dominated by these three
barbaric tribes.
The whole Island is Great Britain.
The Saxons made the Celts retrieve as well who
established themselves In the northern part: Wealhas
(Land of strangers).
Wealhas becomes Wales and the Wealhean Celts
become the Welsh (They called themselves Cymri).
Division of England.
Thus England was divided more or less as it is now:
Great Britain:
1) England (Three Saxon kingdoms + 4 Anglo ones)
2) Scotland
3) Wales
What about Ireland?
The other Island, the Smaller, was never conquered
by no one. It remained 100% Celtic.
Although not conquered by troops it was conquered
by religion.
Conversion of Ireland
Pelagius conceives Christianity in a form that was
considered a Heresy. And spreads his ideas along
Britain (Ca. 420 a.D.)
By 429, the Pope sends the Bishop of Auxerre to fight
him and in his way he lands in Ireland.
He paved the way to Christianity to be spread in the
smaller Island.
Later a portentous missioner, Patricius (later nick
named Patrick), spread the religion allover. Died the
17 of March 461.