The Sixth Century

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  • The Sixth Century
    • Gildas wrote his work concerning the ruin and conquest of Britain 550's
      • worried about the anglo Saxons conquering
        • turning point? no longer a stale mate - we see the advancement of the anglo saxons
      • 540 Gildas writes about the arrival of the anglo saxons
    • marriage of King Aethelbert to Bertha
      • Bertha was a Frankish Princess
        • she was a Christian and tried to help convert with St Augustine
          • intensification of Frankish onctacts would make the king and aristocracy more powerful
        • brought a chaplin with her - no doubt will have tried to convert aethelbert but did not succeed
      • Aethelberts law code could be a turning point
        • it is our earliest / first vernacular text
    • st Augustine arrived in 597
      • turning point - conversion of aethlebert
        • couldn't convert due to bertha but this was a papal mission so more legitimate
          • move away from Frankish christianityand closer to the papacy
      • Augustines mission ended up making Canterbury the archbishopric
        • Canterbury the main ecclesiastical centre in England
      • 597 a turning point for anglo saxon relations with the papacy
      • Sent by pope Gregory the 1 in 595
    • the introduction of kent to the papacy and the franks introduced charters, knowledge, coinage
    • Raedwald of East Anglia from the late 6th century until the eaerly 7th
      • Raedwald had converted due to pressure from Aethelbert
    • Aethelbert of kent not just king of kent but overlord of southern england

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