1000 Years Of British History After 410 AD When The Romans Evacuated
Author: Devinder Patel

The Romans kept continually pushing back their Celtic
attackers in Britain from two sides (the North and West)
but then in 410 AD Emperor Constantine removed his Roman
Army in Britain altogether in order to defend the Roman
Empire at the River Rhine frontier from invasion.

The different cities of Britain thus had to defend
themselves and the Romans never came back.

For the next One Thousand Years Britain again descended
back into barbarism and feudalism with only a brief respite
when William The Conqueror was ruling there.

For the first 600 years after the Romans, Britain was the
battle ground from many different attackers such as the
Angles, the Saxons, and the Celts were again pushed back
into Wales and Scotland by continuing Viking attacks.

After the Romans had left in 410 AD, the Vikings used to
get mercenaries from northern Germany and these mercenaries
(Anglo Saxons) with their families were paid for with
stolen British Lands where they could farm and set up
permanent camps to defend themselves.

Even to this very modern day their Viking Blood Line is
very strong in certain parts of the UK.

Eventually the Anglo Saxons realized that they were
stronger than their employers (the Vikings) and thus they
took control of most of Britain and lands that were not
originally provided to them.

They colonized the northern and western parts of the
British Isles and pushed the native Celts to the boundaries
of Britain, in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.

In 850 AD they finally formed three separate states -
Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex.

These Kingdoms not only had to fight with each other, but
also had to protect themselves from frequent Viking attacks.

In 865 AD a large Viking army landed in East Anglia and
gained a lot of territory here from the now resident Anglo
Saxons.

In 878 AD Vikings attacked fiercely and the Saxon King
Alfred had to run away to Somerset to survive, from where
he regrouped and then kept attacking the Vikings and
ultimately with assistance from his sons and grandsons they
pushed the Vikings back into the sea.

By 955 AD the Great Grandson of Alfred, Eadred ruled
Britain in a fine manner and he created an infrastructure
also.

Then Britain was pushed into a series of battles and wars
against various invaders.

One interesting thing happening to Britain at this
relatively late period was the arrival of Christianity,
brought in by Irish monks and the Christians organized the
whole country into separate diocese, each under the control
of a bishop.

Then along came another Viking raider, William the
Conqueror who ultimately grabbed hold of the whole of
Britain with relative ease by killing King Harold in the
Battle of Hastings. When Edward the Confessor died in
1066, the Vikings saw a chance to regain control and landed
an army to start a war. Within 13 days when they were
camping near Hastings, the Normans killed the English King
Harold. William I was crowned on London on Christmas Day in
1066.

Once he got control of Britain he showed his power by
building the Tower of London to control the unruly
Londoners and to reinforce himself as the new ruler of
Britain.

The previous land owners lost their lands to these Young
Viking Soldiers and they built many castles throughout
Britain, among them being Warwick and Windsor that still
stand today. When he died in 1087 around 100 major castles
were in Britain.

The other good thing about William 1 was that he sent many
of his surveyors across Britain to ascertain the existing
and potential value of his Kingdom, and when they reported
back to him, the information was put into a massive
Domesday Book.

William 1 had descendants who expanded the Norman Empire
further into parts of Nortern France and they ruled across
the English Channel for hundreds of years.

One of his descendants was Henry II who is infamous for
ordering the murder of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury,
Thomas Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral.

After Henry II, King John was weak and appointed as a
figurehead King, more of a care-taker of the English
administration run by individual Barons.

This is of course when the world's first Constitution - The
Magna Carta - was signed in Runnymede by the weak King
John, giving rights to the Barons.

Continental wars continued with Britain making it poor and
thus losing most of its lands on the continent except for
Gascony (Bordeaux).

From 1370 to 1413 many revolutions took place and
ultimately the House of Lancaster got the throne, but Henry
V's reign was quite short and colourful from (1413 to 1422).


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