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Apparently the Jutes assaulted the enemy and brought much needed relief to the beleaguered Romano-British communities of the north.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's fanciful Historia Regum Britanniae, the British king Vortigern married Rowena, the daughter of Hengist, with the civitas of the Cantiaci ( Kent ) as the bride-gift.