486 - 865 The Middle Ages are dominated by increasing English trade links with the continent including the German Saxons and Viking raids
The English inhabitants were referred to as the Anglo-Saxons
Christianity spreads throughout the country and St Augustus is sent by the Pope to convert the English population
Information about this period has been obtained from a monk and Historian referred to as The Venerable Bede (673 - 735) in his writing "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
The Venerable Bede introduced the concept of England and the English people - a Christian people untarnished by any Pagan past...
1120-1129 "HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE" was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth and details the English Arthurian legend of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the chivalric court of Camelot. This provided the Welsh with a claim to the sovereignty of the whole island of Britain of which the Tudors took advantage
Concise History of England
871 Wessex Saxon King Ethelred and his brother Alfred, defeat the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown (in Berkshire)
871-899 King Alfred the Great
1016-1035 - Danish under King Canute rule England
1042 - House of Wessex is Restored under Edward, the Confessor (1042-66) and Harold II (1066)
1066 - The Battle of Hastings - William, Duke of Normandy crowned King of England (William I)
1066-1087) - The Normans rule the English
1086 - 1088 - The English Domesday Book is compiled
1154 - 1399 - The Plantagenets (Angevin Line)
1399 - 1371 - The Plantagenets (Lancastrian Line)
1371 - 1485 - The Plantagenet's (Yorkist Line)
1485 - 1603 - The Tudors
1603 - 1649 - The Stuarts
1649 - 1659 - The Commonwealth under the Cromwells
1660 - 1688 - House of Stuart, Restored
1689 - 1702 - House of Orange and Stuart
1702 - 1714 - House of Stuart
1714 - 1901 - House of Brunswick, Hanover Line
1901 - Present Day - House of Windsor