Visiting Kings and Queens of the Middle Ages
Who knows whether Vortigern really existed. Sources of information on what happened in Britain during the fifth century provide tales that have lived on through the ages but may be a little suspect in their authenticity....
Ambrosius Aurelianus is one of the few people that Gildas identifies by name in his sermon De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, and the only one named from the 5th century. De Excidio is considered the...
After the Romans no longer governed or financially supported Britannia, a patchwork of small kingdom or states cropped up, some governed by Celtic Romans who made Britannia their home; some governed by Celtic Britons, who...
In 1938, Mrs. Edith Pretty, a widow and daughter of a wealthy industrialist, contacted the Ipswich Museum to ask if there were anyone available to investigate a gigantic mound of earth on her Sutton Hoo,...
Let’s take a closer look at two of the bretwalda or ‘over-kings’ not yet described in our narrative. They are Oswiu of Northumbria and Offa of Mercia. Both exemplify the way in which warriors expanded...
