Visiting Kings and Queens of the Middle Ages
Briton in about the Year 802 Before we continue, let us travel from Mercia and points south to Northumbria. Remember that when the Romans abandoned Britain in the early fifth century, the Germanic Angle, Saxon,...
Edgar (also spelled Eadger), birth 943/944 AD/crowned King of the Mercians and Northumbrians in 957, King of the West Saxons or Wessex in 959, reckoned as King of all England from 959/death 975 at age...
Madonna and Child, Book of Kells Link Between Pagan Yule and Christmas Festivities The original Germanic invaders – Angles, Saxons, and Jutes – were not Christian, but were still engaged in celebrations on the 25th...
