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Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or early medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Empire, Roman imperial rule in Roman Britain, Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Compared to modern England, the territory of the ...

during the period of

Christianization Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individu ...

until the

Norman Conquest of England The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Norman, French people, French, Flemish people, Flemish, and Bretons, Breton troops, all led by the Du ...

(c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England, for example, their relics reputedly resting with such houses. The only list of saints which has survived from the Anglo-Saxon period itself is the so-called ''

Secgan ''On the Resting-Places of the Saints'' is a heading given to two early medieval pieces of writing, also known as ''Þá hálgan'' and the ''Secgan'', which exist in various manuscript forms in both Old English and Latin, the earliest surviving m ...

'', an 11th-century compilation enumerating 89 saints and their resting-places.D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978)
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* Anglo-Norse, of mixed English and Scandinavian extraction characteristic of northern and central England in the later Anglo-Saxon era * British, from the

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...

population native to pre-Germanic England, including Welsh, Cornish, Cumbrian and Celtic Armoricans, as well as saints from regions of England Anglicized very late * East Anglian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Anglian region of early medieval England, modern

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

as well as some of

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

* East Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Saxon region of early medieval England * Frankish, from the Frankish kingdom in Gaul, including native Latin-speakers but excluding Bretons * Frisian, from the Frisian region of early medieval Europe * Gaelic, in origin a

Gaelic Gaelic (pronounced for Irish Gaelic and for Scots Gaelic) is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". It may refer to: Languages * Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...

-speaking Celt from Ireland or northern Britain * Kentish, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Kentish region of early medieval England * Mercian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Mercian region of early medieval England * Northumbrian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Northumbrian region of early medieval England * Roman, from the Roman (or 'Byzantine') Empire, excluding Britain * Romano-British, from

Roman Britain Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of ''Britannia'' after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. Julius Caes ...

and neither clearly British or clearly Latin * South Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the South Saxon region of early medieval England * West Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the West Saxon region of early medieval England

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* * * *F. Liebermann, ''Die Heiligen Englands'', Hanover, 1889. * *Susan J. Ridyard, ''The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults'', Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 1988. *D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), 61-93. * * * * {{refend *

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

Christian saints of the Middle Ages Catholic Church in the United Kingdom

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