A strong and successful leader became 'cyning', the Anglo-Saxon word for 'king'. Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

It begins with the story of Hengist and Horsa in AD 449. Anglo-Saxon rule came to an end in 1066, soon after the death of Edward the Confessor, who had no heir. He had supposedly willed the ...

Seven Kings Must Die closes out The Last Kingdom series and while it was a suitable finale, it really should have been two ...

Harold Godwinson’s reign as the last Anglo-Saxon king of England was as brief as it was dramatic. Crowned in January 1066, he faced immediate threats to his rule, most notably from William ...

But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A.D. 410, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England.

the understanding scholars had of the early Anglo-Saxon period in England following the collapse of Roman rule. At first, Brown assumed that any artifacts that had once lain in the mounds would ...