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Events September 22 - Pope Boniface II is elected to succeed Pope Felix IV December 15 - Justinian selects a second commission to excerpt and codify the writings of the jurists on Roman Law. This becomes the Digest. Tribonian becomes quaestor. Belisarius defeats the Sassanids at Dara. Hilderic, king of Vandals and Alans, deposed by his cousin Gelimer Northern Wei Chang Guang Wang succeeds Northern Wei Xiao Zhuang Di as ruler of the Chinese Northe ...

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In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, a fictional account of the rulers of Great Britain, Constantine III was a legendary king of the Britons. He was the son of Cador of Cornwall, a relative of King Arthur. Constantine fought in the Battle of Camlann and was apparently one of the few survivors. Arthur, about to be taken to Avalon, passed the crown to him. Geoffrey says that Constantine continued to have trouble from the Saxons and from the two sons of Mordred (see Melehan and Melou). He eventually subdued ...

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Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England. It was named after the West Saxons and situated in the south and southwest of England. It existed as a kingdom from the 6th century until the emergence of the English state in the 9th century, and as an earldom between 1016 and 1066. "Wessex" has never had any official existence since that time, but it has remained a familiar term since Thomas Hardy revived it for his West Country novels and poetry. Today some wish to see it re ...

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This article is about the ancient form of Christianity in Britain and Ireland, which was addressed at the Synod of Whitby[citation needed] in 664 in an attempt to reconcile it with the Roman rite. The existence of a Celtic Church, or a Celtic Catholic Church (also known as "Culdee Church"), is generally agreed upon by Roman sources but highly debated among scholars. Celtic Christianity - What is Celtic Christianity?. Celtic Christianity, or The Celtic Church, is thought to be a form ...

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• Celtic Christianity - What is Celtic Christianity?
• Celtic Christianity - The Debate about the Church's Existence
• Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Tradition & Legend
• Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Known and Generally Accepted
• Celtic Christianity - Ecclesiastical Structure: How separate was the Celtic church?
• Celtic Christianity - Differences from the rest of Catholicism
• Celtic Christianity - The Easter problem
• Celtic Christianity - Celtic Saints
• Celtic Christianity - Celtic Christianity today

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The British Isles is a term traditionally given to the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe including Great Britain (containing England, Scotland, and Wales), Ireland, and several thousand smaller adjacent islands. The name was extensively used historically, derived from when the island of Great Britain was called Britannias, and Ireland and the other islands near Great Britain were called Britanniae (the Latin genitive case meaning of Britannias.) In 1922 most of the island of Ireland ceased to be i ...

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• British Isles - List of the British Isles
• British Isles - Origin of the term British Isles
• British Isles - Classical geographers
• British Isles - Native sources
• British Isles - Renaissance mapmakers
• British Isles - Modern historians
• British Isles - Subsequent political history
• British Isles - Problems with modern usage
• British Isles - Alternative terms
• British Isles - Footnotes

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Anglo-Saxons is a term that refers to a collection of culturally related Germanic tribes from Angeln. This is a peninsula in the southern part of the province of Schleswig that protrudes into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of Germany. This group of Germanic tribes achieved dominance in southern Britain beginning in the mid-5th century C.E.. From that time until the 9th century, those tribes coalesced into a single people, the Anglo-Saxons, which in turn formed the basis for the modern day English ...

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• Anglo-Saxons - Etymology
• Anglo-Saxons - Origins of the word
• Anglo-Saxons - Use of the term Anglo Saxon today
• Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon Invasions
• Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon conquest controversy
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon culture
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon architecture
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon art
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon language
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon literature
• Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon religion
• Anglo-Saxons - Timeline from 597 to 1066

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Saint Aldhelm (c. 639-May 25, 709), Abbot of Malmesbury, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and Anglo-Saxon literature scholar, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as Aldhelm's early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. Aldhelm received his first education in the school of an Irish scholar and monk, Maildulf (also Maeldubh or Meldun) (died c. 675), who had settled in the British stronghold of Bladon (or Bladow) on the site of the town called Mailduberi, M ...

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Events Byzantine general Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogoth capital Ravenna. Ostrogoth king Witiges is succeeded by Ildibad. Pope Vigilius in letters to Emperor Justinian and Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople rejects Monophysitism. The Sassanids attack Dara and capture Antioch. High King Custennin ap Cado of Britain is deposed and returns to Dumnonia. Several cultures worldwide chronicle tales of fire in the sky, unexplained ground shakings, a temporary nightfall that ...

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Events Ceawlin of Wessex becomes King of Wessex (traditional date). Ethelbert succeeds his father Eormenric as king of Kent (traditional date). Adda succeeds his brother Glappa as king of Bernicia (traditional date). Aella becomes king of Deira (traditional date). Saint Columba quarrels with Saint Finnian over authorship of a psalter, leading to a pitched battle the next year. Custennin ap Cado abdicates as King of Dumnonia and retires to a monastry where he is eventually murdered. He is succeeded by his son Gerren II rac Dehau. Births Isidore ...

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613 - Events. Clotaire II reunites the Frankish kingdoms by ordering the murder of Sigebert II. Saint Columbanus founds the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy. The Abbey of St. Gall is founded. Isanapura becomes the capital of the Cambodian kingdom of Chenla. Muhammad begins preaching Islam in public. Shahrbaraz of Persia captures Damascus. Aethelfrith of Northumbria defeats the Welsh and their allies at Chester. 613 - Bir ...

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Events The Persian Empire under general Shahrbaraz captures and sacks Jerusalem; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is damaged by fire and the True Cross is captured. The Persians destroy the Ghassanid kingdom. The Sudarium of Oviedo is taken from Jerusalem. Cynegils of Wessex takes advantage of the death of King Bledric ap Custennin of Dumnonia (Devon) and invades. He defeats the West Welsh forces under the command of his son and successor Clemen ap Bledric at the Battle of Beandun. King Clemen is forced to re ...

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Cornwall and neighbouring Devon had large reserves of tin, which was mined extensively during the Bronze Age by people associated with the Beaker culture. Tin is necessary to make bronze from copper, and by about 1600 BCE southwestern Britain was experiencing a trade boom driven by the export of tin across Europe. This prosperity helped feed the skilfully wrought gold ornaments recovered from Wessex culture sites. There is evidence of a relatively large scale disruption of cultural practices around the 12th century BCE that some scholars think ma ...

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History of Cornwall, History of Cornwall - Pre-Roman Cornwall, History of Cornwall - Roman Cornwall, History of Cornwall - 410-936, History of Cornwall - 936-1485, History of Cornwall - Tudor and Stuart period, History of Cornwall - 1714 to the present

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Until the 19th century the West Country and its dialects were largely protected from outside influences due to its relative geographical isolation. The West Country dialects derive not from a corrupted form of modern English, but reflect the historical origins of the English language and its historical pronunciation, in particular Late West Saxon, which formed one of the earliest English language standards. The dialects have their origins in the expansion of Anglo-Saxon into the west of modern day England, where the kingdom of Wessex ...

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West Country dialects, West Country dialects - In literature, West Country dialects - Early period, West Country dialects - 19th Century, West Country dialects - 20th century, West Country dialects - History and origins, West Country dialects - Celtic language influence, West Country dialects - Characteristics, West Country dialects - Additional selected vocabulary, West Country dialects - External links

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This refers to the period up to the arrival of the Romans, c47 AD. There is evidence from artifacts in a quarry at Westbury that man was present in the future Somerset from c500000 BCE. Somerset was one of the first areas of future England settled following the end of the last Ice Age c8000 BCE. It is thought to have been occupied by Mesolithic hunter-gathers from about 6000 BCE. In the Neolithic era, from about 3500 BCE, there is evidence of farm ...

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History of Somerset, History of Somerset - Key dates in Somerset history, History of Somerset - Prehistory, History of Somerset - Roman, History of Somerset - Dark Age, History of Somerset - Saxon, History of Somerset - Middle Ages, History of Somerset - Early Modern, History of Somerset - Late Modern

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According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specific events given by the ASC are considered to be suspect. Archaeological evidence points to an origin in the upper Thames and Cotswolds area and the ASC origin myth may have been political propaganda designed to justify a later invasion of the Jutish province in southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The first certain event in Wessex is the baptis ...

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Wessex, Wessex - History, Wessex - Revival, Wessex - The present South West England region, Wessex - Modern uses of Wessex, Wessex - Earl of Wessex

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Gildas' surviving written work, De Excidio Britanniae or On the Ruin of Britain, is a sermon in three parts condemning the acts of his contemporaries, both secular and religious. The first part consists of Gildas' explanation for his work and a brief narrative of Roman Britain from its conquest under the principate to Gildas' time, a chronicle that relates concerning her obstinacy, subjection and rebellion, about her second subjection and harsh servitude; concerning religion, of persecution, the holy martyrs, many ...

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Gildas, Gildas - De Excidio Britanniae, Gildas - Gildas in the Anglo-Saxon Period

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In classical times, foreign sources used "Brit-" or "Prit-" with various endings and native sources used oceani insulae meaning "islands of the ocean" or insularum meaning "islands". Only in modern times has British Isles entered the English language. British Isles - Classical geographers. The inhabitants of the British Isles in classical times were the Celtic Bruthin or Priteni, later known as the "Brythons", who were in Great Britain and Ireland some time before the 5th ...

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British Isles, British Isles - List of the British Isles, British Isles - Origin of the term British Isles, British Isles - Classical geographers, British Isles - Native sources, British Isles - Renaissance mapmakers, British Isles - Modern historians, British Isles - Subsequent political history, British Isles - Problems with modern usage, British Isles - Alternative terms, British Isles - Footnotes

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It is important to recognise the theological issues raised by the antiquity of the Celtic Church and the influence its existence may have had on Roman Catholicism. Once these issues are joined in the context of renewed nationalism in modern church movements, Celtic revivalism and neo-paganism, the debate becomes complicated. At the heart of the debate between the Roman Church and the Celtic or Culdee Church, as it was called, and the issues that made this a theological one, was the Roman Church's claim that Peter founded the church. T ...

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Celtic Christianity, Celtic Christianity - What is Celtic Christianity?, Celtic Christianity - The Debate about the Church's Existence, Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Tradition & Legend, Celtic Christianity - Antiquity of the Celtic Church: Known and Generally Accepted, Celtic Christianity - Ecclesiastical Structure: How separate was the Celtic church?, Celtic Christianity - Differences from the rest of Catholicism, Celtic Christianity - The Easter problem, Celtic Christianity - Celtic Saints, Celtic Christianity - Celtic Christianity today

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A timeline of major events during the Anglo-Saxon period. 597 - Roman Christianity is brought to Britain for the first time by St. Augustine, sent from Pope Gregory to convert the Saxons. Augustine lands in Kent and is welcomed by King Aethelbert whose Frankish Queen is already a Christian practicing at her church of St. Martin's, Canterbury. Augustine converts Aethelbert and his court to Christianity and founds a monastery at Canterbury. Commencement of the erection of a monastery at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, ...

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Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxons - Etymology, Anglo-Saxons - Origins of the word, Anglo-Saxons - Use of the term Anglo Saxon today, Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon Invasions, Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon conquest controversy, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon culture, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon architecture, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon art, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon language, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon literature, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon religion, Anglo-Saxons - Timeline from 597 to 1066

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In 410, the Emperor Honorius replied to a petition for help, reputedly from the inhabitants of Roman Britain—although there is now some dispute as to where the request originated—that they should "look to their own affairs"; from this brief mention, historians have assumed that effective Roman rule in Britain ended. Some scholars find signs of local authorities maintaining Roman patterns in the following years; this remains speculative. Nevertheless, with the withdrawal of the Roman army and the cessation of coinage, Roman administration ...

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Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxons - Etymology, Anglo-Saxons - Origins of the word, Anglo-Saxons - Use of the term Anglo Saxon today, Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon Invasions, Anglo-Saxons - The Anglo-Saxon conquest controversy, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon culture, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon architecture, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon art, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon language, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon literature, Anglo-Saxons - Anglo-Saxon religion, Anglo-Saxons - Timeline from 597 to 1066

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