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Asser ’ s account of the raid places the Danish raiders at the Saxon city of Rochester, where they built a temporary fortress in order to besiege the city.
In order to defend against Saxon raiders, the Romans created a military district called the Litus Saxonicum (" Saxon Coast ") on both sides of the English Channel.
Saxon raiders under the command of a certain Adovacrius ( perhaps, but not surely Odoacer ) reached Angers but Childeric arrived the next day and a battle ensued.
While there are no historical sources to inform us one way or the other, it is likely that the Chauci continued their raiding until they were replaced by Frankish and Saxon raiders in the 3rd century.
The system would continue to evolve through the disappearance of Chauci raiders and their replacement by the Frankish and Saxon ones, up to the end of the 4th century.
Roman Britain was under attack by Saxon and other raiders in the 3rd Century and it became necessary to fortify the once-prosperous commercial port of Rutupiae.
* John Saxon – Sador, leader of the evil Malmori raiders.
The Saxon Shore forts were built by the Romans in the 3rd century AD as a defence against overseas raiders.

Saxon and had
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.
The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.
That Latin learning had not been obliterated is evidenced by the presence in his court of learned Mercian and West Saxon clerics such as Plegmund, Wæferth, and Wulfsige, but Alfred's account should not be entirely discounted.
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.
He says relatively little about the achievements of Mercia and Wessex, omitting, for example, any mention of Boniface, a West Saxon missionary to the continent of some renown and of whom Bede had almost certainly heard, though Bede does discuss Northumbrian missionaries to the continent.
He also is parsimonious in his praise for Aldhelm, a West Saxon who had done much to convert the native Britons to the Roman form of Christianity.
His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.
The village of Cheddar had been important during the Roman and Saxon eras.
This battle is of interest because it is surprising that an area so far east should still be in Briton hands this late: there is ample archaeological evidence of early Saxon and Anglian presence in the Midlands, and historians generally have interpreted Gildas's De Excidio as implying that the Britons had lost control of this area by the mid-sixth century.
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 occupation of land that was to form the kingdom had begun by the early 5th century at Mucking and other locations.
Albert had a successful military career leading Saxon troops which participated in the First War of Schleswig, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War.
During these operations the Crown Prince won the reputation of a thorough soldier ; after peace was made and Saxony had entered the North German Confederation, he gained the command of the Saxon army, which had now become the XII army corps of the North German army, and in this position carried out the necessary re-organisation.
Saxon mercenaries from these tribes had been present in Britain since the late Roman period, but the main influx of population is traditionally thought to have taken place from after they left in the fifth century.
In the same period Angles had conquered the previously Brythonic territory south of the Clyde and Forth, initially creating the Anglo Saxon kingdom of Bernicia, later becoming a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
By the end of the Saxon period, the port of Hastings had moved eastward near the present town centre in the Priory Stream valley, whose entrance was protected by the White Rock headland ( since demolished ).
Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

Saxon and been
Ælle's death is not recorded and although he may have been the founder of a South Saxon dynasty, there is no firm evidence linking him with later South Saxon rulers.
The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.
The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times, including a Saxon palace.
The battle itself has long been regarded as a key moment in the Saxon advance, since in reaching the Bristol Channel, the West Saxons divided the Britons west of the Severn from land communication with those in the peninsula to the south of the Channel.
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.
Small timber churches are suggested at Lincoln and Silchester and baptismal fonts have been found at Icklingham and the Saxon Shore Fort at Richborough.
There has been criticism of Scott's portrayal of the bitter extent of the " enmity of Saxon and Norman, represented as persisting in the days of Richard " as " unsupported by the evidence of contemporary records that forms the basis of the story.
The original Saxon name had been Cerdic but Sir Walter misspelled it – an example of metathesis.
Although Mellitus fled, there does not seem to have been any serious persecution of Christians in the East Saxon kingdom.
Armed conflict between the Baltic Finns, Balts and Slavs who dwelt by the Baltic shores and their Saxon and Danish neighbors to the north and south had been common for several centuries prior to the crusade.
So thus, a Saxon unit of laeti would have been settled at Bayeux — the Saxones Baiocassenses.

Saxon and eastern
The eastern realm, which would become Germany, elected the Saxon dynasty of Henry the Fowler.
The train station has two grand entrance halls, the eastern one for the Royal Saxon State Railways and and the western one for the Prussian state railways.
After the fall of Great Moravia, the rulers of the Bohemian duchy had to deal both with continuous raids by the Magyars and the forces of the Saxon duke and East Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who had started several eastern campaigns into the adjacent lands of the Polabian Slavs, homeland of Wenceslaus ' mother.
* Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England, which later collapses.
The Saxon nobility continued to resist the Archdiocese of Magdeburg located along the Empire's eastern border.
The eleventh century chronicler Eadmer, who had known the Saxon cathedral as a boy, wrote that, in its arrangement, it resembled St Peter's in Rome, indicating that it was of basilican form, with an eastern apse.
( Dutch Low Saxon: Harderwiek ) is a municipality and a small city in the eastern Netherlands.
Subsequently Old Germanic Saxon tribes lived in the northwest and Polabian Slavs in the eastern territories along the Elbe.
As early as the year 1000, however, Emperor Otto III permitted the entire part lying on the eastern boundary of Thuringia to be administered by imperial vogts, or bailiffs ( advocati imperii ), whence this territory received the name of Vogtland ( Terra advocatorum ), a designation that has remained to this day a geographical summary for Reuss, especially that part on the Saxon borders.
There is no sharp dividing line between its western dialects and adjacent Northern Low Saxon dialects on the one hand and between its eastern dialects and dialects of Western Pomerania on the other hand.
Henry's eastern campaigns to Brandenburg and Meissen, the establishment of Saxon marches as well as the surrender of Duke Wenceslaus of Bohemia marked the beginning of the German eastward expansion ( Ostsiedlung ).
The West Saxon victory at the Battle of Peonnum ( possibly modern Penselwood in east Somerset ), around 658, resulted in the Saxons capturing " as far as the Parrett " and the eastern part of Dumnonia being permanently annexed by Wessex.
Ascot ( or Ascott ) is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means ' eastern cottage '.
There is evidence that the island was frequently visited by both Romans and Vikings and there is archeological evidence for remains of a Saxon multivallate promontory fort occupying the eastern end of the Island, on the summit of which is a Bronze Age barrow.
The Kingdom of Hungary's medieval eastern borders were therefore defended in the northeast by the Nösnerland Saxons, in the east by the Hungarian Border Guard tribe Szeklers, in the southeast by the castles built by the Teutonic Knights and Burzenland Saxons, and in the south by the Altland Saxon.
The municipality extends up to the foothills of the eastern Ore Mountains and into the Saxon Switzerland.
* A synonym for the medieval Kingdom of Germany in prior German historiography, i. e. the territory of the German stem duchies excluding the Saxon and Bavarian eastern marches.
All of the identifiable locations except Pawton are in the far east of Cornwall, so these references show a degree of West Saxon control over its eastern fringes.
The A5 forms its eastern and northern boundary ; parts of Bletcham Way and Saxon St form its southern boundary.
In addition, as part of a project to regenerate Bletchley as a whole, Milton Keynes Council proposed the creation of a new eastern pedestrian access to the station by extending the existing platform overbridge across the tracks to reach Saxon Street.

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