Gildas, a British monk, (circa 504-570 AD) wrote that the Angles and Saxons received ... a mission to England in 596 AD, probably as the result of a request of Æthelberht, king of Kent whose ...

After Edward died, the English Witan (council of Anglo-Saxon kings) chose Earl Harold of Wessex as the next king. The Normans took over all of England, including the Danelaw. Duke William of ...

Although Harold is famous for being England’s last Anglo-Saxon king, he only reigned for just over nine months. His defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings was arguably the single most ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty ...