In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Medieval History series, we explore why the Anglo-Saxons were repeatedly defeated by ...

Each king ruled a kingdom and led a small army. The Anglo-Saxon kings were from ruling families who passed their power on to their children. From time to time, the strongest king would claim ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to ...

Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new ...

Thousands of men died, among them two Danish kings and several nobles ... husband's successor and took control of Mercia, one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, now known as the Midlands.

In 1939, the iron- and copper-clad helmet was discovered in Suffolk, England, within the elaborate ship burial of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon ruler. For decades it has been considered one of the ...