The peoples known to us as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians, began to arrive in Britain in the 5th century.

This began a vicious 400-year war of occupation and led to the creation of various Saxon kingdoms in England including that of the South Saxons ( Sussex ), the West Saxons ( Wessex ) and the East Saxons ( Essex ) alongside others established by the Angles and the Jutes and are the foundations of the modern English nation.

The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and " all those north of Humber " arrived from the region of Anglia ( a peninsula in Southern Schleswig, Northern Germany ) " which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and Saxons ".

He reminisces about this from 1980s Glasgow, where he lives as a recluse in a Victorian folly ( St Jutes ), ever since the tragic events which led to the demise of the band.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

It is possible that the Jutes are a related people to the Geats and a Gothic people as it is mentioned in the Gutasaga that some inhabitants of Gotland left for mainland Europe.

There are a number of toponyms that attest to the presence of the Jutes in the area, such as Ytene, which Florence of Worcester states was the contemporary English name for the New Forest.

While it is commonplace to detect their influences in Kent ( for example, the practice of partible inheritance known as gavelkind ), the Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight vanished, probably assimilated to the surrounding Saxons, leaving only the slightest of traces.

* Emperor Honorius sends his Rescript ( diplomatic letters ) to the Romano-British magistrates, where he explains that the cities in Britain must provide for their own defence against the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons.

Among them were the Jutes Hengest and Horsa ; he is said to have rewarded the Isle of Thanet in return for their services.

Former kingdoms, which became earldoms in the united England did not feature this formulation ; so for Kent, the former kingdom of the Jutes, " Kentshire " was not used.

Unfortunately, and foreseen by no one, when they arrive at Finn's stronghold they find that many of Finn's thanes are also Jutes, particularly one Garulf, who seems to be the rightful heir to the kingdom conquered by Hnæf's people ; and these Frisian Jutes are at blood feud with Hengest and his band, because Hengest supports the conquering Danes, if for no other reason.

) Finn gives the Danes a separate hall to dwell in for the winter, specifying that they shall share it with the sons of the Jutes ( meaning Hengest and his band.

Dan apparently first ruled in Zealand for the Chronicle states that it was when Dan had saved his people from an attack by the Emperor Augustus that the Jutes and the men of Fyn and Scania also accepted him as king, whence the resultant expanded country of Denmark was named after him.

The most important era for Sturry, determining its future shape, size, function and name, was that part of the early 5th century when the beleaguered Romano-Britons brought in Frisians and Jutes as mercenaries to help them fight against invading Picts and Scots, and rewarded them with land.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 449-454 records the arrival of large numbers of Angles and Jutes under Hengest and Horsa, defeating the British king, Vortigern, in 455.

Asser, in his Vita Ælfredi asserts that this shows his lineage from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight.

The first phase Migration Period displacement from between CE 300 and 500 included relocation of the Goths ( Ostrogoths and Visigoths ), Vandals, Franks, various other Germanic people ( Burgundians, Lombards, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Suebi, Alemanni, Varangians and Normans ), Alans and numerous Slavic tribes.

There is both documentary and archaeological evidence that Kent was colonized primarily by Jutes, from the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

Collectively known as the " Anglo-Saxons ", these were mainly Saxons from Northern Germany, and Angles and Jutes from the Jutland peninsula.

Afterward, more people arrived in Britain from " the three powers of Germany ; the Old Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes ".

The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri.

Even if Jutes were present to the south of the Saxons in the Rhineland or near the Frisians, this does not contradict the possibility that they were migrants from Jutland.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

The Jutes, along with some Angles, Saxons and Frisians, sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade Great Britain from the late 4th century onwards, either displacing, absorbing, or destroying the native Celtic peoples there.

The conversion of the Saxons in England from their original Germanic religion to Christianity occurred in the early to late seventh century under the influence of the already converted Jutes of Kent.

Although Kent was the first part of the British mainland to be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD onwards, after the departure of the Romans, it was not until the late 7th century that the spelling Folcanstan appears.

The depredations of the Picts from the north and Scotti ( Scots ) from Ireland forced the Britons to seek help from pagan Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who then decided to settle in Britain.

The monk Bede, who wrote in the 8th century, considered the Mercians to be descended from the Angles, one of the invading groups ; the Saxons and Jutes settled in the south of Britain, while the Angles settled in the north.

It was founded at an unknown date in the 5th century by Jutes, members of a Germanic people from continental Europe, some of whom settled in Britain after the withdrawal of the Romans.

In the Early Middle Ages the river is believed to have been the border between the related Germanic tribes the Jutes and the Angles who during this period, along with the neighboring Saxons crossed the North Sea from this region and settled in England.

:"... from the Angles, that is, the country which is called Anglia, and which is said, from that time, to remain desert to this day, between the provinces of the Jutes and the Saxons, are descended the East Angles, the Midland Angles, Mercians, all the race of the Northumbrians, that is, of those nations that dwell on the north side of the river Humber, and the other nations of the English.

The settlement of Kent is attributed to Jutes ( from the north of the Angles ).

Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Arabs and more recently the settling of people from the Commonwealth, notably the Indian sub-continent, and the European Union reflect the present-day culture of South Tyneside.

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutæ ( pronounced ) were a Germanic people who, according to Bede, were one of the three most powerful Germanic peoples of their time, the other two being the Saxons and the Angles.

He also gives names in the Historia to the leaders of the Saxons, Hengest and Horsa ; and specifically identifying their tribes, the Saxons, Angles, and Jutes ( H. E., 1. 14, 15 ).

The region was home to the Germanic people, the Angles, who, together with Saxons and Jutes, left their home to migrate to Britain in the 5th-6th centuries.

When the Roman army left Britain, the province was more vulnerable to attack, first by the Jutes in east Kent, and the Romanised native Britons attempted to defend their island from attack.

While much of the county, including west Kent, was settled by the Angles and Saxons, a race known as the Jutes — of similar descent from the Germanic area of Europe – had already made east Kent their home, They regarded themselves as a separate kingdom with their own laws and customs.

The Jutes called themselves Kentings, believing that they were the real Men of Kent and retaining many of their customs until quite late into the Middle Ages.

The story claims that the " Saxons " — which probably includes Angles and Jutes — arrived at the banquet armed with their long knives ( seaxes ) hidden on their persons.

Saxon " pirates " had been raiding the eastern seaboard of Britain from here during the 3rd and 4th centuries ( prompting the construction of maritime defences in eastern Britain called the Saxon Shore ) and it is thought that following the collapse of the Roman defences on the Rhine in 407 pressure from population movements in the east forced the Saxons and their neighbouring tribes the Angles and the Jutes to migrate westwards by sea and invade the fertile lowland areas of Britain.