The native Britons, whose Christian church survived the departure of the Romans, earn Bede's ire for refusing to help convert the Saxons ; by the end of the Historia the English, and their Church, are dominant over the Britons.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

These records are in direct conflict with Bede, who states that the Isle of Wight was settled by Jutes, not Saxons ; the archaeological record is somewhat in favour of Bede on this.

The newcomers are known to have included Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians, and there is evidence of other groups as well.

Similarly, the Normans in Ivanhoe, who represent a more sophisticated culture, and the Saxons, who are poor, disenfranchised, and resentful of Norman rule, band together and begin to mold themselves into one people.

They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).

Some of these are human threats, such as the Saxons he fights in the Historia Brittonum, but the majority are supernatural, including giant cat-monsters, destructive divine boars, dragons, dogheads, giants and witches.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

In 441 – 442, Saxons are mentioned for the first time as inhabitants of Britain, when an unknown Gaulish historian wrote: " Britain falls under the rule of the Saxons ".

Saxons as inhabitants of present-day Northern Germany are first mentioned in 555, when Theudebald, the Frankish king, died and the Saxons used this opportunity for an uprising.

Bede, a Northumbrian, writing around the year 730, remarks that " the old ( that is, the continental ) Saxons have no king, but they are governed by several ealdormen ( or satrapa ) who, during war, cast lots for leadership but who, in time of peace, are equal in power.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

The reasons for this journey are fundamentally unclear, since Truso was at the time little more than a trading center, and Alfred the Great, the West Saxon ruler, already kept in close contact with the continental Saxons and the Franks.

* Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized.

Many non-Roman soldiers are from Germanic tribes: Alamanni, Franks, Goths, Saxons and Vandals.

* The prosperity of Roman Britain declines during this period as the Germanic tribes of the Franks and Saxons, whose homelands are in Friesland and the Low Countries, make raids around the southeast coast.

From the end of the 3rd century, Heruls are also mentioned as raiders in Gaul and Spain, together with Saxons, Franks and Alamanni.

He hires Saxons who are probably settled in Kent as mercenaries to fight against the Picts and the Scots beyond Hadrian's Wall.

The Saxons used the site as a stronghold against marauding Vikings, and the Normans built a stone curtain wall around the Iron age perimeter and a centrally placed castle on a motte protected by a deep dry moat.

The Isle of Wight and the Meon valley in what is now eastern Hampshire had been placed under Æthelwealh's control by Wulfhere ; the Chronicle dates this to 661, but according to Bede it occurred " not long before " Wilfrid's mission to the South Saxons in the 680s, which implies a rather later date.

The fourth quarter shows the coat of arms of Transylvania, Maramureş and Crişana: a shield parted by a narrow fesse, gules ; in the chief, on azure, there is a black aquila with golden beak coming out of the fesse, accompanied by a golden sun on the dexter and a crescent argent on the sinister ( symbolizing the Székelys ); on the base, on or, there are seven crenellated towers, placed four and three ( symbolizing the Saxons ).

After the excommunication of Henry IV by Pope Gregory VII in 1076, Otto attempted to mediate between Henry and the Saxons at Trebur, but when these efforts failed he again placed himself at their head.

A series of forts was already being built, starting around 280, to defend the coasts, but these preparations were not enough when a general assault of Saxons, Irish and Attacotti, combined with apparent dissension in the garrison on Hadrian's Wall, left Roman Britain prostrate in 367.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

However, the Codex Gothanus writes that the Lombards were subjected by the Saxons around 300, but rose up against the Saxons with their king Agelmund.

Saxons, along with Angles, Frisians and Jutes, invaded or migrated to the island of Great Britain ( Britannia ) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.

There was a small Roman settlement around the wells, but its importance grew under the Saxons when King Ine of Wessex founded a minster church in 704, around which the settlement grew.

The city was successively invaded by the Saxons ( around 285 ), the Franks ( around 500 ), the Britons ( in the 6th and 7th centuries ) and the Normans, who laid waste to it in 843: " The city of Nantes remained for many years deserted, devastated and overgrown with briars and thorns.

By the late 9th century, Danish invasions prompted at least a partial reoccupation of London by the Saxons ; the bridge may have been rebuilt around 990 under the Saxon king Æthelred the Unready, to hasten Saxon troop movements against Sweyn Forkbeard, father of Cnut.

The Saxons settled in Martham around AD600 and gave the village its name, " the ham of the martens ", the home of the polecats.

After the Roman departure the area around Dumfries had various forms of visit by Picts, Saxons, Scots and Danes culminating in a decisive victory for Gregory, King of Scots at what is now Lochmaben over the native Britons in 890.

It was probably around this time that Devon was conquered by the West Saxons.

This attack was delayed, as Bernadotte had to wait for the arrival of Zezschwitz's division, but, at around 21: 00, the Saxons moved towards the village.

Dorset and Somerset derive their names from the saete or inhabitants of the areas around the towns of Dorchester and Somerton respectively ; the names were first used by the Saxons in the 9th century.

The area was settled by the Saxons around the late 5th century.

After the victory, when the Danes had taken refuge in Chippenham, the West Saxons removed from the area around all food that the Danes might be able to capture in a sortie, and waited.

The town proper was believed to have been founded by Anglo Saxons around 600.

By 864, the area around Durnovaria / Caer Durnac was dominated by the newly established Saxons, who came to refer to themselves as Dorsaetas (' People of the Dor ' - Durnovaria ).

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.

Romanian historical tradition associates the foundation of Wallachia with the " dismounting of Radu Negru " who crossed the Carpathians from Transylvania accompanied by " Romanians, papists, Saxons, and all kind of men " around 1290.