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Date c. 500 - c. 900
Location Essex • Kent • Northumbria • Wessex • England
Participants Anglo-Saxon • Danish

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Aelle
Anglo-Saxon ruler [fl. 5th century]
Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira
Oswiu
king of Northumbria
Oswald, Saint
Saint Oswald
king of Northumbria
Ceawlin
king of Wessex
Edwin
king of Northumbria
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Vortigern
king of the Britons
Aethelberht I
Aethelberht I
king of Kent
Cadwallon
Welsh king of Gwynedd