Thrones of Britannia depicts the sweep of the British Isles from 878 AD onwards, when the Anglo Saxons were at their height. The peoples of these regions came collectively to be known as the Anglo Saxons – a term which came into common usage in the 8 th century in order to distinguish the English Saxons from the Old Saxons, or Ealdseaxe, of the European continent.īroadly speaking, the Anglo Saxons existed between the collapse of Roman rule in the 5 th century until the Norman invasion in the 11 th century the early Medieval period.
When Roman rule in England concluded, new kingdoms of Germanic stock coalesced in the counties now known as Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex, East Anglia and Kent.
