INGLESE - THE OLD PERIOD FROM ORIGIN TO 1066 - THE FIRST INVASIONS

With the fall of Roman empire  British town  were left  in the hands of  the same races of Barbarians  who were  then sweeping over the continent
In 410  A.D. the jutes led by Heginst invaded Britain  and established  the Kingdom of Kent (449 A.D.)  The saxons followed  and fonded the Kingdom of Sussex Wessex and Essex
Third came tha Angels who  settled in the Kingdoms of  East Anglia  and Northumbria
Then again the saxons came to raid the Island and established the Kingdom do Mercia
What remained of the original Celt population fled to Wales and Cornwall  where a Celt Language can still be heard nowaday
When king Ethelbert allowed Augustin  to build a Church in Canterbury  and to become its first archbishop  chrisitanity made  its appearance  on  the Island
The main  historical  document  of this period  is the Historia Ecclesiastica  Gentis Anglorum  written by a monk, venerable Bede and later  translated into  Anglo-saxon