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In his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Bede records that the first chieftains among the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in England were said to be Hengist and Horsa.

Bede says that Horsa was killed in battle against the Britons and was thereafter buried in east Kent.

Bede adds that a monument bearing Horsa's name stood in east Kent at the time of his writing.

According to Bede, Hengist and Horsa were the sons of Wictgils, son of Witta, son of Woden.

Later in the same work, Bede notes that Hengist was the father of Oeric, and that Oeric accompanied Hengist upon his invitation by Vortigern.