Bede Formation

According to sources such as the History of Bede, most of the sources used to explain the history of these nations come from the history of Bede such as the history of the jutes and others, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia. In early times there were two northern kingdoms and two Midland kingdoms, which by the 7th century had turned into two northern Angle kingdoms, Northumbria and Mercia. Northumbria held most of the power in the British Isles in the 7th century but was overthrown by the rise of Mercia in the 8th century. Both kingdoms fell to great invasions by the Danish Viking armies in the 9th century. Their royal houses were effectively destroyed in the
They were mentioned as raiding and settling in many North Sea territories, as well as expanding south inland towards the Franks in France. After the fall of the Roman Empire a significant amount of the population settled in large parts of Great Britain in the early Middle Ages and formed the group of Anglo-Saxons who eventually created the first United Kingdom of England. Many Saxons, however, remained in Germany, where they battled against expanding Frankish Empire through the leadership of the semi-legendary Saxon hero, Widukind. Initially, Saxons of Britain and those of Germany were both referred to as 'Saxons' by opposing nations in an indiscriminate manner. The term Anglo-Saxon, in turn, came into practice in the 8th century to distinguish English Saxons from North German Saxons. The Saxons' earliest area of settlement is believed to have been in Northern Albingia, an area around modern Holstein near the Angles homeland. Saxons, along with the Angles and other mainland Germanic tribes, participated in the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain during and after the 5th century. The Celtic inhabitants of the Isles tended to refer to all of these groups collectively as Saxons. No one knows how many migrated to Britain but is inferred about 200,000 settled. During the Middle Ages, because of international trading routes and widespread migration, Saxons mixed with and had strong influences upon the languages and cultures of the Polabian Slavs, Baltic peoples, and Finnic people and Pomeranians, both West Slavic peoples, as well as the North Germanic