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And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.
Now omitting for a moment some recent developments we can say the Saxon Shore hypothesis of Lappenberg and Kemble has undergone virtual eclipse in this century.
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.
We know that the Saxon Shore was a phenonenon of late Roman defensive policy ; ;
So whenever the Romans finally withdrew from the island, the Saxon Shore disappeared in the first decade of the fifth century.
We also know that the Saxon Shore as reflected in the Notitia was created as a part of the Theodosian reorganization of Britain ( post A.D. 369 ).
My argument is that there was no Saxon Shore prior to that time even though the forts had been in existence since the time of Carausius.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
In Gaul the Saxon element on its Saxon Shore was plainly visible because there the Saxons were an intrusive element in the population.
In Britain, obviously, the archaeological and place-name characteristics of the Saxon Shore region are bound to be Saxon.
Saxon raids on the southern and eastern shores of England had been sufficiently alarming by the late 3rd century for the Romans to build the Saxon Shore forts, and subsequently to establish the role of the Count of the Saxon Shore to command the defence against these incursions.
Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.
The Bagaudae had been easily suppressed, but Carausius, the man he had put in charge of operations against Saxon and Frankish pirates on the Saxon Shore, had begun keeping the goods seized from the pirates for himself.

Saxon and could
In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.
The Saxons are placed around the lower Elbe, which area they could have reached merely by an extension of the Saxon alliance.
The Britons told the Saxons that the Saxons ' numbers had increased, that they no longer needed Saxon assistance and that the Saxons should go home as the Britons could no longer support them.
In the Free State of Saxony, the chairman of the Left Party group, Peter Porsch, could lose his mandate in the Saxon parliament because of his alleged Stasi past.
Some fifteen years earlier, in a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not " forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.
The burg element is Anglo-Saxon and could refer either to a fortified place such as a burh or, more likely, a monastic enclosure, however the Glestinga element is obscure, and may derive from an Old English word or from a Saxon or Celtic personal name.
Other sources suggest that Eustace was present with William at the Malfosse incident in the immediate aftermath of the battle, where a Saxon feigning death leapt up and attacked him, and was presumably cut down before he could reach William.
Having built his play on Becket's being a Saxon ( when he was actually a Norman whose family was from near Caen and called Becquet, Bequet, Becket in Old Norman ), Anouilh could not recast the play to accord with historical facts, so he decided to let it stand.
There is also evidence of South Saxon territory breaking away from West Saxon dominance in the early 720s, and this may indicate Æthelbald's increasing influence in the area, though it could have been Kentish, rather than Mercian, influence that was weakening West Saxon control.
If such a dominant native family as that of Cerdic had already developed blood-relationships with existing Saxon and Jutish settlers at this end of the Saxon Shore, it could very well be tempted, once effective Roman authority had faded, to go further.
With his infantry reduced to some 6, 000 men, the commander had difficulties rallying a part of his troop but he could still count on two reasonably valid Saxon divisions.
" The Saxon infantry was by then completely disorganised and it could play no further role in the battle, with only the cavalry and ten cannons still combat-able.
Saxon also issued rulings that national banks could underwrite municipal revenue bonds.
After many of Comptroller Saxon ’ s decisions granting national banks greater powers had been challenged, commercial banking firms had been able to expand their non-securities activities through theone bank holding company .” Because the Bank Holding Company Act only limited nonbanking activities of companies that owned two or more commercial banks, “ one bank holding companies ” could own interests in any type of company other than securities firms covered by Glass-Steagall Section 20.
Neither the agnatic heirs of Schauenburg nor Holstein-Pinneberg's liege lord the Lower Saxon Duke Augustus could help it.
By the early 20th century, most Masurians were at least bilingual and could speak Low Saxon and German ; in some areas about half of them still spoke Masurian, at least at home.
Notable is the Saxon church ( dedicated to St. Laurence ), which may have been founded by St. Aldhelm around 705, and could have been a temporary burial site for King Edward the Martyr.
While Boleslaw I could draw upon the support of many secular Saxon nobles, Henry II could rely on the Saxon clergy.
Many parents, however, continued to speak Low Saxon with their children, since they could not speak anything else, nor did they need to ; many of the Eastern Dutch towns and villages were largely self-reliant, and located far from the economical heart of the country.

Saxon and refer
That the king should have consented to treat with his rebellious son, to refer the compromise to a meeting of Saxon nobles, to moderate the pugnacity of his own supporters, and to resign the rule over the more important half of his dominions – all this testifies to the fact that Æthelwulf ’ s Christian spirit did not exhaust itself in the giving of lavish charities to the Church, but availed to reconcile him to the sacrifice of prestige and power in the cause of national peace.
Tintagel Castle is a 13th Century construct whereas the Arthurian legends refer to the post-Roman / early Saxon era of the mid 5th Century making the two completely unrelated.
Saxon language may refer to:
Historically, " Anglo-Saxon " has been used for centuries to refer to the Anglo Saxon language of the inhabitants of England before 1066, and since the 19th century has been in common use to refer to all people of English descent.
West Saxon sources refer to him as an ealdorman, emphasising Mercian subordination to the West Saxon monarchy, whereas Mercian ones describe him as Lord of the Mercians, and Celtic ones sometimes as king of Mercia.
The name of the town is believed to originate from the Saxon chieftain or tribe Bunta ; it does not refer to the bird Bunting, or the festive flag-like decorations.
John Saxon may refer to:
One could therefore legitimately speak of “ Arabized ” Jews, or " Jews of Arab countries ", just as one can speak of " English Jews " or " British Jews " or " Polish Jews ", whereas many Jews would object to terms such as " Saxon Jews ", " Celtic Jews ", or " Slavic Jews " as the latter refer to ethnic groups and therefore, implicitly, deny the existence of a distinct Jewish ethnic identity.
However, the mistranslation of Olland as Altes Land has now come full circle, since most Low Saxon speakers today refer to the region as dat Ole Land ( literally the old land ).
Saxon may refer to:
" Baughurst " may either refer to the wood inhabited by a Saxon named Beagga, or by badgers ; " wood of the badgers ".

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