Timeline

##### c. 4000 p.e.v.

Odin and other gods slay the ancient giant Ymir, creating the world from his body. The race of giants spring from Ymir's corpse as well. The gods carve man and woman from two trees and give them life.

## Third Millennium before Christ

### Thirtieth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 2990s

##### c. 3000 B.C.

The giants perfect the use of iron, creating weapons of outstanding craftsmanship and strength. Their culture reaches its peak. In their shadow, humans struggle to survive (much as mammals did during the age of dinosaurs).

### Twenty-Eighth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 2790s

##### c. 2800 p.e.v.

Nomadic hunters - Skridfinnar - immigrate from eastern Europe.

## Second Millennium before Christ

### Twentieth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 1990s

##### c. 2000 p.e.v.

The giants rebel against the gods, but Odin, Thor and Tyr fight back. The sea-god Aegir floods the giant-halls. Many giants die; the rest retreat into the waste-lands of middle-earth, particularly Thule.

### Fifteenth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 1490s

##### c. 1500 p.e.v.

Ritual sacrifice of prey is supplemented by offerings of valuables.

### Eleventh Century prior era vulgaris

#### 1090s

##### c. 1100 p.e.v.

Brutus and his followers arrive to Britain and finds inhabitants, giants, already there. They defeat the giants and the island is named Britain.

## First Millennium before Christ

### Fifth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 490s

##### c. 500 p.e.v.

Beginning of Iron Age in Thule. Sacrifice expanded to include booty and human beings.

After a prolonged warm cycle, weather in the north turns cold and damp. Some Cimbri and Teutonic tribes migrate south, coming in contact with the growing Mediterranean cultures.

Milesian (the Irish) invasion of Ireland.

#### 440s

##### c. 450 p.e.v.

Pictish invasion of Ireland which is rebuffed. They are diverted to Caledonia instead, where they are defeated by the Britons, but allowed to stay as those lands were rather sparse of people anyway, as long as they accept the King of the Britons as their overlord.

#### c. 445 p.e.v.

The Picts return to Ireland and steal women. The Irish eventually agree to give three hundred of their daughters away provided the Picts agree to a matriarchal society, which they do.

### Fourth Century prior era vulgaris

#### 340s

##### 350 p.e.v.

Pytheas, a Greek writer, is the first to make mention of Northmen (possibly Skridfinnar), calling their land Thule.

#### 310s

##### c. 320 p.e.v.

Sir Uhtred le Beau's 6th-great-grandfather is alive.

A wizard enchants the greatspear named Piercer.

### Second Century prior era vulgaris

#### 110s

##### 102-101 p.e.v.

The Cimbri and Teutons invade Italy, skiing down the southern Alpine slopes on their shields! The Roman Army eventually defeats the barbarian invaders.

### First Century prior era vulgaris

#### 50s

##### 55-54 p.e.v.

Iulius Caesar invades Britain. The first and second invasions are failures. The third time, he invades with a larger army and local allies, and defeats King Cassivellanus. He extracts promises of tribute as well as hostages, before returning to Gaul to suppress an uprising.

## First Millennium after Christ

### First Century era vulgaris

#### 0s

##### 5 e.v.

Emperor Augustus sends a Roman fleet to make a reconnaissance of the northern-most tip of Jutland. Cimbri and other tribes send emissaries, asking friendship of the Roman people.

#### 30s

##### 40 e.v.

Claudius invades Britain, but despite some success, he is defeated. He makes peace with King Arviragus, who marries his daughter. King Arviragus invites Roman traders to settle and trade in Britain.

#### 50s

##### 60 e.v.

Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, is whipped and her daughters ravished by Roman debt collectors. She raises a rebellion against King Arviragus and the blood-sucking Romans he has allowed into Britain, joined by many other Britons. They destroy the three cities where Roman traders live ~ Camulodunum, Londinium and Verulamium ~ and massacre the inhabitants. King Arviragus calls for help and the future Emperor Vespasian arrives with a Roman army. Together, they defeat Queen Boudica and her rebels. Eventual death toll is a hundred thousand dead Romans and allied Britons, mostly civilians from the destroyed towns, and eighty thousand Briton rebels. As thanks for the Roman help, King Arviragus gives southeastern Logres to Romans.

#### 90s

##### 98 e.v.

Tacitus describes the customs and manners of northern tribes.

##### c. 100 e.v.

Thule and the Roman Empire forge links in trade through intermediaries. Some Northmen find adventure in Rome, where they are sought as soldiers in the Praetorian Guard.

### Second Century era vulgaris

#### 110s

##### 120 e.v.

Under King Arviragus’ son, Marius, and especially under his grandson, Coill, who was raised in Rome, the Romanization of Britain continues. Roman-style villae and towns spread across Logres. King Coill rebuilds Eburacum to imitate the Roman cities, and has the city of Carlion-on-Usk built in Cambria.

#### 120s

##### 127 e.v.

The Kingdom of Vihtesleth. The legendary king Dan creates a Cimbri kingdom made up of Zealand, Fyn, Falster, and Lolland. Specifically, these Cimbri were the Eruli tribe. While his realm is called Vihtesleth, Dan's name would one day apply to the Danes and to Denmark.

#### 140s

##### 150 e.v.

The Roman Church first comes to Britain when King Lucius invites missionaries to come to Londinium and teach.

#### 180s

##### 189 e.v.

King Lucius dies 156 years after the excarnation of our Lord. He leaves no heirs, and the Britons fight amongst themselves. Senator Septimius Severus is sent with a Roman army to restore order, and he takes under Roman power the whole of Britain south of Solway Firth. A wall is built to mark the division between the Roman province and the wild Caledonia. His task completed, Senator Septimius Severus returns to Rome.

#### 190s

##### 193-197 e.v.

Roman pretenders take legions from Britain to fight for the Emperorship in the continent. The winner of the Roman civil war is Emperor Septimius Severus.

Caledonians, Picts and Britons alike, raid into the Roman province of Britain.

##### 198 e.v.

Emperor Septimius Severus sends governors and legions to defend Britain, but the unrest continues.

##### c. 200 e.v.

A Northman war-chief named Heremod invades Vihtesleth from Skane. He is amazingly successful, driving many of the Eruli from Zealand and Fyn (these Eruli wander Europe as mercenaries for over 300 years). Heremod rules over a mixed Northmen-Cimbri population, who collectively become known as Danes. The kingdom - Skane, Zealand, and Fyn at this time - becomes Denmark.

### Third Century era vulgaris

#### 200s

##### 208-211 e.v.

Emperor Septimius Severus comes to Britain. He brings the Constitutio Antoniniana that makes all free Roman subjects to be Roman citizens. He campaigns in the North, with Eburacum as his capital, moving the border to Firth of Forth and ordering the Antonine Wall built. However, as he lies dying in 211, the Romans retreat back to the Great Wall and abandon the Antonine Wall

#### 220s

##### c. 230 e.v.

Heremod was a good king, strong in battle and firm of rule, but as he grew older he encompassed evil and became a kin-slayer. None mourn his death when he is killed by monsters in the Troll Woods of central Zealand.

##### c. 230-390 e.v.

The Danish rulers become progressively weaker, until eventually the kingdom splits into numerous independent clans.

##### 235-283 e.v.

Crisis of the Third Century. Roman Empire is shaken by numerous civil wars, provincial rebellions and invasions.

#### 250s

##### 250-275 e.v.

Carausius revolts and establishes himself as King of Britain. Allectus, another Roman, suppresses the rebellion and makes himself king. King of Cornwall, Asclepiodotus, defeats Allectus in turn, seizing power from the Romans.

##### 256 e.v.

Arius is born in Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, Roman Empire

#### 270s

##### 275 e.v.

Emperor Diocletian starts persecuting Christians. King Asclepiodotus, seeking Emperor Diocletian’s favor, starts persecuting Christians in Britain, too. St. Alban is martyred in Verulamium, which thenceforth is called St. Albans in honor of the Martyr. Duke Coel of Camulodunum rebels against King Asclepiodotus, kills him and takes the crown for himself. King Coel halts the persecutions.

##### 280 e.v.

Senator Constantius Chlorus sails to Britain with his legions to reassert Roman power. King Coel offers his daughter and heiress, Helen, in marriage to this great Roman general. King Coel dies soon thereafter, and Constantius Chlorus becomes the new King of the Britons. He orders fortifications built on the southeastern coast to guard against Saxon pirates.

### Fourth Century era vulgaris

#### 300s

##### 306 e.v.

The British legions hail Chlorus’ son, Constantine, as the new Emperor in Eburacum. Constantine conquers the Roman Empire, gaining the sobriquet “the Great.”

#### 310s

##### 311 e.v.

Having returned to Alexandria from studying in Antioch under Saint Lucian, Arius sided with Meletius of Lycopolis in his dispute over the re-admission of those who had denied Christianity under fear of Roman torture, and was ordained a deacon under the latter's auspices. He was excommunicated by Bishop Peter of Alexandria in 311 for supporting Meletius.

##### 313 e.v.

Under Peter's successor Achillas, Arius was re-admitted to Christian communion and made presbyter of the Baucalis district in Alexandria.

Constantine’s Edict of Milan stops the Christian persecutions throughout the Roman Empire.

#### 320s

##### 325 e.v.

Constantine convenes the First Council of Nicaea, which formalizes the Christian creed.

#### 330s

##### 335 e.v.

Octavius revolts against Constantine the Great and makes himself King of the Britons. Senator Trahern invades for the Empire and displaces him, but is assassinated soon afterwards.

##### 336 e.v.

Arius dies at the age of 80 in Constantinople, Thracia, Roman Empire

##### 337 e.v.

Constantine dies. The Supreme Collegium elects Octavius as King of the Britons and Octavius returns to Britain.

##### c. 340 e.v.

The Roman Empire collapses. The loss of Roman trade has a great effect on Thule.

#### 350s

##### 358 e.v.

Those barbarians who would later be called (Salian) Franks, form an agreement with the Romans, which allows them to settle south of the Rhine delta.

#### 360s

##### 370 e.v.

A ship beaches on the shore of Zealand. It carries only a small boy, man-sized arms and armor, and a chest of rich treasures. This boy is Scyld Scefing, son of Forseti and future founder of a new Danish royal house. He is adopted by a chieftain named Sheaf.

##### 376 e.v.

Conall is born.

Visigoths cross the Danube into the Roman Empire, fleeing from the newly arrived Huns.

##### 378 e.v.

Battle of Adrianople. A Roman army is destroyed by the heavy cavalry of the Visigoths. Emperor Valens is killed. Cavalry becomes pre-eminent in the Roman army.

##### 379 e.v.

Niall of the Nine Hostages becomes the High King of Ireland.

##### 380 e.v.

The British theologian Pelagius finishes preaching in Britain, and moves to Gaul. Senator Maximianus (the Cymric Macsen Wledig) comes to Britain to find his true love, who is Helen, the daughter of Octavius. King Octavius consents to their marriage and after his death, Maximianus is made King of the Britons.

#### 380s

##### 383 e.v.

King Maximianus ennobles Cambrian tribal chiefs to organize their own defenses against the Irish, founding the royal houses of Cambria, including that of future King Vortigern’s family. He claims the title of the Emperor of Rome, stripping Britain of soldiers to invade the Roman Empire. He leaves King Dionotus of Cornwall as the regent, crosses the British Sea with his troops and conquers Rome. Many of his soldiers settle in Armorica, which afterwards is called Brittany, or “Little Britain.”

##### 388 e.v.

As Britain, without an army, is ravaged by invaders, Emperor Maximianus sends Gratian Municeps with two legions to help. Gratian Municeps drives out the invaders but at great cost to his own army. Emperor Maximianus dies in battle against a rival Emperor of the East, Theodosius. His sons and the remains of his Briton army settle to Brittany, because Gratian Municeps seizes power in Britain, and soon proves to be a tyrant.

##### 390 e.v.

When Scyld reaches young adulthood, he proves his worth by re-uniting the Danish tribes and defending them against raiders. He is elected king of Denmark. Over the course of his reign, Scyld expands his kingdom to include Zealand, Fyn, Falster, Lolland, and Skane. These lands owe him tribute, all nearby lands grant him respect.

High King Vortigern is born.

#### 390s

##### 395 e.v.

The Britons rise up against Gratian Municeps, killing him and his men. However, the island is raided by invaders, and they turn to Rome for help

##### 397 e.v.

Candida Casa is founded by St. Ninnian as a base from which he could venture forth to spread Christianity among the Picts. Conall is knighted.

##### 398 e.v.

General Stilicho comes to Britain, defeating Saxons, Picts and the Irish. Britain is added back to the Empire, protected by two legions and a tribe of Saxons called Berrocingas, who are settled in Logres. General Stilicho appoints Coel Hen as the Dux of Eburacum, giving him power and responsibility over Cumbria.

##### 400 e.v.

St. Ninnian brings Christianity to the Picts of Benoic. Unust mac Cadal is born. King Mor is born.

### Fifth Century era vulgaris

#### 400s

##### 401 e.v.

Pope Innocent I establishes the Petrine Doctrine. The Petrine Doctrine is the belief that Christ gave Saint Peter special authority. This authority has been passed on to each successive Pope. Vandals and Alani migrate into Noricum and Raetia. Stilicho grants them land in exchange for military service.

##### 402 e.v.

General Stilicho recalls one of the two British legions to assist with the defense of Italy against Alaric and the Visigoths. The Visigoths are defeated, this time, at the battle of Pollentia. The capital of the Roman Empire is moved from Milan to Ravenna.

##### 403 e.v.

Victricius, Bishop of Rouen, visits Britain for the purpose of bringing peace to the island’s clergy, who are in the midst of a dispute over the Pelagian heresy. This belief says original sin does not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without Divine Aid. Thus, the human race does not require God’s grace for salvation, and therefore Christ’s death does not redeem mankind.

##### 405 e.v.

General Stilicho is forced to strip the Rhine and Britain garrisons to defend Italy against a barbarian invasion led by King Radagasius. The last legion leaves Britain, never to return.

##### 406 e.v.

Massive invasion of Alans, Suebi and Vandals crosses the frozen Rhine at the start of the year, overwhelms the depleted garrisons, and ravages Gaul and Hispania. The attacks on Britain by Saxons, Picts and the Irish start again, as the province is left defenseless by the Romans

##### 408 e.v.

Honorius assassinates Stilicho, with many of his Vandal soldiers. Alaric uses pretext of unpaid bribe to invade Italy again. Roman troops are allowed to rob and to murder Germanic peoples living in Italy, causing many to desert to Alaric.

##### 409 e.v.

Alaric besieges Rome three times. Vandals invade Hispania.

##### 410 e.v.

Hengest is born.

The Supreme Collegium sends a letter to Rome begging for help as the invaders are back. Rome replies, telling them to “look to your own defense.”

##### 411-415 e.v.

Roman government in Britain is violently overthrown, with many officials killed. Britain is torn by riots: poor against rich, town against country, Roman against native, Roman Christians against British Christians, tribe against tribe. Barbarians raid the coastlines. Dux Coel Hen of Eburacum adopts the title of a king, and extends his overlordship north of the Wall, too.

##### 413 e.v.

Belgae in Britain are exterminated as a tribe, its people assimilated, and its territory divided. Tribes keep fighting among themselves.

##### 415 e.v.

British leaders convene the Supreme Collegium to elect a High King. Guided by Archbishop Guithelinus, the Collegium offers the crown to King Aldronius of Brittany, the son of Emperor Maximianus, who defers it to his younger brother who is crowned Constantin II of Britain. Constantin sails from Brittany with 2000 soldiers. He marries a British princess (the daughter of King Coel Hen of Eburacum), and becomes the High King of Britain.

High King Constantin gives his sister, Severa, in marriage to King Vortigern of the Ordovices and the Silures in Cambria, and makes him the Dux of Glevum, too. He summons the best men of each tribe to his service and ennobles them as knights, in return for their promise to fight for him when he calls upon them. Thus, High King Constantin manages to bring peace to Britain, for a while.

##### 416 e.v.

Visigoths conquer Vandal kingdom in Hispania on behalf of Empire.

##### 418 e.v.

Pelagius, the theologian of British Christianity, is declared a heretic in Rome (Pelagian heresy).

##### 419 e.v.

Theodoric I is elected king of the Visigoths. A Visigoth noble, Lancelot, negotiates a deal with the continental Romans: in return for giving Hispania back to the Romans, the Visigoths gain Aquitania. They become known as Aquitainians, and Theodoric grants Ganis to Lancelot to rule as a king.

##### 420 e.v.

Plague decimates Camulodunum, Linden Pool, Glevum, and Corinium. King Coel Hen dies in Eburacum.

#### 420s

##### 423 e.v.

Around this time, Constantin sires his first son, Constans, whom he entrusts to a monastery in the White City.

Roman Emperor Honorius dies, followed by several usurpers.

A count named Aetius begins to re-conquer Gaul with a vast army of Hun mercenaries.

##### 425 e.v.

Sir Unust mac Cadal marries Lady Brigid of Cumbria.

##### 426 e.v.

Sir Yvo is born in Lower Hightown in County Hantonne. Roman commander Aetius campaigns in Gaul against Aquitainians and Franks.

##### 428 e.v.

Picts destroy the watchtowers along the Cumbrian coast and penetrate into Icenia.

##### 429 e.v.

St. Germanus of Auxerre, a bishop of Gaul, travels to Britain at the pope’s orders to stamp out the Pelagian Heresy. He blesses Dux Vortigern, who then welcomes the saint but does not aid him against the heretics. Instead, Dux Vortigern diverts him into help and advice on secular problems. Vandals invade Roman province of Africa under Arian King Genseric.

##### 430 e.v.

Abbot John is born. Death of Augustine of Hippo during the Vandal siege of Hippo Regius.

##### 431 e.v.

Roman Emperor Valentinian III makes peace with Vandals in Africa.

##### 433 e.v.

Sir Gaudifier is born. Constantin’s next son is Aurelius Ambrosius, named for his distant relative St. Ambrose. Attila becomes ruler of Huns.

##### 435 e.v.

Duke Edaris is born. War between Irish settlers in Cambria (Estregales) and kingdom of the Ordovices.

##### 436 e.v.

Sir Gwylon is born. Sir Heliandor de la Montagne is born. Sir Caradoc the Thirteenth is born. Constantin sires his last son, Uther. Guithelinus, Archbishop of Londinium, fosters both Ambrosius and Uther.

##### 436-438 e.v.

Romans under General Aetius beat back the Aquitainian invasion of Narbonne, and besiege King Theodoric’s capital of Toulouse.

##### 438 e.v.

Duke Gorlois is born. Brother Syrion is born in the White City in Hantonne. Sir Diocenar is born. Renewed raids in the Saxon Shore by Frisians.

##### 439 e.v.

The Irish are brought to battle at Carlion-on-Usk. Sir Gwyllim is born. Sir Bellias is born. Sir Eliezier the Strong is born. Sir Ulfius is born. Frisian pirates continue to raid heavily. In North Africa, Vandals seize Carthage. In Gaul, Aquitainians win the Battle of Toulouse, but are defeated by General Aetius in the Battle of Castelnaudary afterwards.

##### 440 e.v.

King Constantin is murdered by Sir Unust mac Cadal, and one of his own Atrebates guards is blamed. Sir Sansum is born. Meanwhile, a new wave of Irish invades Demetae and Dumnonii lands. Vandals invade Sicily. Leo the Great becomes pope.

#### 440s

##### 441 e.v.

Sir Gracian is born. Dux Vortigern drags Constans from the monastery, and has him crowned the King of Logres, hoping to use the weak, unworldly king as his puppet.

##### 442 e.v.

Sir Sadinal is born. Sir Goreau is born. Dux Vortigern convinces the Supreme Collegium to elect Constans as the High King.

##### 443 e.v.

Young King Constans is murdered by his Pictish bodyguards, on Vortigern’s orders. They bring Vortigern Constans’ head, whereupon he kills them. After much debate, Duke Vortigern is selected to be the next King of the Britons. The younger brothers of King Constans are taken away to Brittany in secret to live with their cousin, King Budec, in Brittany. Also this year, a prelate from the pope, the saintly Germanus, comes to Britain to condemn and combat British Christianity. Abner is born. Sir Carac is born. Duke Corneus is born.

##### 444 e.v.

The Fight at Finnsburgh. Sixty Angles led by Hnaef visit King Finn of Frisia in his fortress by the sea. Giants in Finn's retinue make a surprise attack on the Angles at night, yet Hnaef s warriors defend the hall's two doors for five days. Hnaef is killed, but sensing that neither side can win, Finn offers to end the feud if the Angles swear allegiance to him. The latter - now led by Hengist - agree.

Picts retaliate against King Vortigern, staging a massive invasion with the help of the Brigantes. They occupy northern Logres and raid all the way to the Thames. A Vandal prince sends an Aquitainian princess back to her father, King Theodoric. She has been mutilated. Theodoric and the Aquitainians vow revenge.

##### 445 e.v.

Hengist and the Angles avenge Hnaef s death by slaying Finn. Sir Brychan is born. Sir Arnoullant the Fair is born. Picts continue to ravage Logres. Vortigern decides to get mercenaries. Aquitainians ally with Romans.

##### 446 e.v.

King Vortigern realizes that he needs assistance against the furious Picts and, in good Roman fashion, hires new barbarians to fight the old barbarians. The Saxon kings Hengist and Horsa lead mercenaries to Britain, landing at Thanet with three shiploads of Saxon warriors to join Vortigern’s army. Thus reinforced, the Briton army marches north against the Picts. Battle is met near the city of Linden Pool, and it is a great victory for the British.

Aquitainians and Romans are defeated by the Suebi at the Battle of Guadalquivir.

##### 447 e.v.

Brother Hugh is born. Vortigern is elected as the High King by the Supreme Collegium, for defeating the Pict Invasion. He rewards the Saxons with the island of Thanet, in Kent, and then sends the Saxons to fight against the Picts in Cumbria. Vortigern agrees that Hengest should recruit more Saxons from the Continent. St. Germanus returns to Britain to condemn and combat British Christianity. He miraculously heals the crippled leg of the son of Elaphias, praetor of the White City.

##### 448 e.v.

Sir Geraint is born. Sir Moneval is born. Sir Canuc de Caerec is born. Vortigern rewards the Saxons with land east of Linden Pool, which, under Hengest’s cousin Beohrtric, will become the Kingdom of Sorestan. Bacaudae rebellion in Brittany.

##### 449 e.v.

Sir Segurant is born. The King of Brigantes surrenders to Vortigern, and his kingdom is split into four kingdoms: Bedegraine, Malahaut, Maris and Roestoc. He remains the king of the largest kingdom, Malahaut.

##### 450 e.v.

Vortigern, impressed with the battle prowess of the Saxons and even more so with the talents of Rowena, the daughter of the Saxon chief Hengest, marries her this year in a lavish celebration. Hengest receives half of the Cantii civitas as her bride price, naming it Kent. The Cantii leader is executed for treason when he objects. Vortigern’s horrified sons fear for their own inheritance.

Scyld dies. His body is placed in an ornate longship with many treasures, and cast out into the North Sea so that he may return from whence he came. Scyld's son Beow becomes king of Danes. Count Roderick is born.

#### 450s

##### 451 e.v.

Sir Do de Carduel is born. Sir Argan ap Maelgad is born. Cerdic born to Vortigern and Rowena. Attila the Hun invades Gaul; defeated at Chalons by Count Aetius who is supported by Aquitainians and other allied nations, including the Britons. King Theodoric dies on the battlefield and his son, Thorismund, becomes the King of Aquitaine.

##### 452 e.v.

Ralf is born. Attila invades Italy but turns back, either because he is persuaded by Pope Leo the Great or due to a plague in his army.

##### 453 e.v.

The twins Sir Minodos and Sir Minodalis are born. Attila is murdered during his wedding feast by his Germanic wife Kriemhild (“Ildico” to Romans). Hunnish threat to West ends. King Thorismund is killed by his brother, King Theodoric II, who becomes the new King of Aquitaine.

##### 454 e.v.

After failing to smash or bluff Rome into submission, the Hun army turns to Gaul for pillage and plunder, scouring the land of its wealth, slaughtering as it goes. The commander in Gaul, Aetius, sends for help from all who will send it, and Vortigern sends a small contingent. The allied army meets the Huns at Chalons, where the Huns are defeated and driven from Europe.

Vortigern claims the Parisi civitas when their king dies without heir. Southeastern nobles conspire with Vortigern’s adult sons, Vortimer and Katigern, to overthrow Vortigern and Hengest. In Italy, jealous rivals murder Count Aetius and Emperor Valentinian III, plunging the Empire into anarchy.

##### 455 e.v.

Sir Meliodas of Lyonesse is born. King Cunedda of Garloth heads south to drive the Irish from Gomeret. Vortigern moves Cornovii warriors to Dumnonia, and Votadini to Cambria, where they expel the Irish. He compensates the Ordovices with some of the Cornovii lands, creating the Kingdom of Powys. The Kingdom of Silures becomes known as Escavalon. Vortigern’s daughter marries the son of High King Loegaire of Ireland, and a number of Irish nobles and commoners are converted to Christianity. This is followed up by a formal treaty, first broached during Germanus’ visit, that ends the raiding on both sides and Irish help for their colonists in Britain.

Vortigern is persuaded to settle Saxons under Hengest’s sons Octa and Eosa in former Parisi lands, founding Nohaut and Deira. Shiploads of continental Saxons flock to the new theods. Two tribes of loyal Picts are moved to Jagent. Vandals sack Rome. Gallo-Roman nobleman Avitus becomes the Emperor with Aquitainian support.

##### 456-461 e.v.

Majorian usurps Avitus and becomes the Emperor. He works hard to restore the Western Empire, defeating the Burgundians, the Aquitainians and the Suebi, taking back Gaul and Hispania. However, Vandals manage to destroy his fleet, preventing him from invading Africa. His assasination is the final nail in the coffin of the Western Empire.

##### 456 e.v.

Vortimer and Katigern lead rebellions against their father. Vortimer and Katigern invade Kent with the southeastern Britons, meeting Hengest and Horsa at Darent River and then at Aylesford. Horsa and Katigern kill each other at the latter battle. Aquitainians gain a measure of revenge by allying with the Romans to defeat the Vandals in Sicily, but Majorian’s coup chills the relationship.

##### 457 e.v.

The eastern Britons rebel, protesting the policies of King Vortigern. The king summons his army, including the Saxons, and marches to aid Hengest against them under Vortimer. A great battle ensues at Kent, in which the rebels are crushed, establishing Saxon ownership of all of Kent. Vortigern gives the great lands of the Kantii tribe to his loyal Saxons. Many Britons pack up and depart the land, moving to Brittany to escape the rule of Vortigern. Vortimer’s rebellion ends, but he continues to plot against his father.

##### 458 e.v.

Childeric, son of Merovig, settles in and becomes the King of the Ile de France. Dyanne is born.

##### 458-460 e.v.

Many Britons flee to Brittany, where they beg Aurelius Ambrosius to save Britain, but he feels the time is not ripe yet for his return.

##### 459 e.v.

Seaghán and Unnamed, both bastards of Sir Doughall mac Angus mac Conall, are born. Errant is born. Galeth is born. Madoc (ap Uther ap Constantin) is born. Sir Brastias is born.

#### 460s

##### 461 e.v.

Dyanne is born. Vortimer and the Britons rebel again, pushing the Saxons out of Kent and back to Thanet after the Battle of Stonar.

##### 462 e.v.

The rule of King Vortigern has proved unwise and very oppressive, often favoring his Saxon mercenaries (and inlaws) over his lawful subjects. Many nobles have talked of rebellion, and when Vortigern’s eldest son (by his first marriage) agrees to lead the nobles, general rebellion breaks loose. The Count of Salisbury is among the rebels to fight in the Battle of Grantabridge. Vortimer defeats the Saxons against at Ebbsfleet, but dies, some say poisoned by his stepmother, Rowena. King Vortigern calls for Saxons and Britons to meet in a peace conference at Salisbury Plain.

Derfel is born.

##### 463 e.v.

Ostensibly to bring peace to all sides, Vortigern and Hengest call a council of all combatants to meet at Stonehenge for a feast of peace. Seeking reconciliation, almost all British knights attend. The Saxons prove their worth through great treachery with seaxes concealed in their leggings, though, and the majority of the nobles of Britain are slain in the “Night of Long Knives.” Dux Eldol of Glevum kills seventy Saxons with a wooden stake, managing to fight his way free and to escape. King Vortigern is captured alive, and cedes Britain to Hengest. In the subsequent confusion, a large part of their armies are dispersed or slain. The Earl of Salisbury is among the dead. Kingdom of Lyonesse splits from the Cornovii Kingdom of Cornwall, as it is ceded to the younger brother, but it is subservient to the Kingdom of Cornwall.

Lady Ceinwyn is born.

King Fridleif of the Heathobard tribe abducts queen Ingrid of Denmark.

Franks defeat Visigoth invasion, preserving their position.

##### 463-465 e.v.

Saxons take Londinium, Eburacum, and other important cities in Britain, ravaging the neighboring countryside.

##### 464 e.v.

Cuthbert is born. Vortigern escapes back to his lands in Cambria, where he begins construction of the impregnable Tower of Ganarew ~ but each day’s work is destroyed by the next morning. Wise men tell him that he must sprinkle the blood of a fatherless boy on the foundation stones. The search for the boy begins.

##### 462-464 e.v.

Aegidius, the magister militum of Gaul, proclaims an independent Kingdom of Soissons with Majorian’s assassination. He allies with Brittany to fight against the expansionist Aquitainians. He is ambushed by the Aquitainians on the way to a peace conference. His son, Syagrius, inherits Soissons.

##### 465 e.v.

Vortigern escapes from the Saxons and takes refuge in Gomeret, attempting to build a fortress. The youthful Merlin makes his appearance and begins his career. Aquitainian fleet with King Lancelot is lost in a sea battle against the Vandals.

##### 466 e.v.

The fatherless boy is found: Merlin. He predicts that Aurelius and Uther, the sons of Constantin, will invade this year. Indeed, Aurelius and Uther land in Cornwall at Totnes, Ascalon, and Tintagel (March 21, 466) with 10,000 Aquitainians, Bretons and Britons. He carries a great banner with a red dragon upon it. All across the land discontented Britons rally around him. The Saxons are defeated in a great battle at Exe River.

##### 467 e.v.

Lady Ellen is born. Vortigern is besieged at Carlion by Aurelius, but manages to escape. Vortigern flees to Ganarew Castle on Mount Snowdon, on the River Wye in Ergyng. Aurelius follows, accepting the submission of those loyal to Vortigern.

##### 468 e.v.

Vortigern is besieged at Ganarew and dies from a fire within his tower. Aurelius Ambrosius summons the Supreme Collegium who anoints him as High King. He takes the title of Pendragon (“high dragon”, or “head dragon”) derived from his great battle banner. He starts rebuilding the kingdom, but there are still Saxons to take care of. They still occupy Cambria and much of the southeastern Britain. King Riothamus of Domnonie is made the new King of Cornwall, with the Kingdom of Lyonesse and the Principality of Totnes as his vassals. Prince Idres of Totnes, whose father was the previous King of Cornwall, feels slighted by Aurelius and Riothamus, even though Riothamus marries Idres’ sister and makes Idres his heir

Saevil is appointed jarl of Lolland.

##### 469 e.v.

King Hoegne of East Gautland dies and is succeeded by prince Hjorvard. King Hengest of Kent is executed after the Battle of Conigsbrough by Duke Eldol. His son Aesc inherits the throne.

The new High King, Aurelius, joined by Duke Eldol of Glevum, marches his army against the Saxons. Hengest leads his army to join up with his two sons’ armies in Cumbria. Aurelius’ army pursues and intercepts Hengest’s army, defeating the Saxons at Maisbeli, and then the next day at Conisbrough, where mounted Breton knights rout the Saxons. Duke Eldol of Glevum and Duke Gorlois of Cornwall drag Hengest from the Saxon formation, and kill him after a trial. Hengest’s sons Octa and Eosa swear fealty to Aurelius. Æsc continues resisting in Kent, but sends most of the women and children to the continent for safety, including Rowena and Cerdic.

##### 469-479 e.v.

Aurelius Ambrosius institutes the key practices that make up the knight’s repertoire (horse, lances, honor, manorial system, etc.) It spreads quickly through Britain.

##### 470 e.v.

The Danish king Beow dies. His son Halfdane becomes king in Denmark, but the realm is governed by jarl Saevil as regent.

Liudeger of the continental Saxons is conquered by the Burgundy.

Prince Uther and Merlin invade Ireland, defeat King Gillomanius in battle, and transport Sacred Stones to Britain. They are added to the Giant’s Dance as a memorial to those killed in the Night of Long Knives. Aurelius settles his followers to lands in Logres, and introduces vassalage: a vassal swearing allegiance to a higher noble, even if they are from different tribes. The tribal affiliations fade away. King Riothamus of Cornwall leads his army to Gaul to fight against the Aquitainians, but is defeated and killed with most of his army.

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##### 471-473 e.v.

Prince Uther makes a name for himself fighting against the Saxon raids from Kent. Duke Gorlois of Cornwall and King Idres of Cornwall start a war over inheriting Riothamus’ lands and titles.

##### 473 e.v.

The Saxons, confident of victory, march into the Thames Valley. King Aurelius Ambrosius raises an army to resist, but loses the battle in a major Saxon victory.

Gebicho of Worms begins his rule of the Burgundians.

Æsc is reinforced in Kent with an army of Continental Saxons. He defeats Aurelius at the Battle of Windsor. Æsc invites more Saxons to Kent, solidifying his power.

##### 474-476 e,v,

Saxons of Kent raid the Britons heavily, while the dukes and Prince Uther lead the regional defense.

##### 475 e,v,

Aquitaine, a close trade partner and carrier of the horses to Britain, learns of knighthood before the game starts.

##### 476 e.v.

Byzantine Emperor Zeno rallies the army and conquers the empire that had been taken from him. He is named Emperor of the West by Odoacer the Heruli Goth. He proceeds to support Dietrich of Bern in his war against King Odoacer in Italy.

Odoacer, a German mercenary leader, deposes Emperor Romulus and becomes King of Italy, subject to Emperor Zeno of Byzantium. Many wars with neighboring barbarian tribes follow.

##### 477 e.v.

Another Saxon king, Ælle, lands in southern Britain with a large army and takes over the area. Many of the peasants flee, but others are captured and enslaved. Ælle renames the land Suth Saxe. Aurelius Ambrosius marches with his army to oppose the foe, who is reinforced at the last moment by the Saxons from Kent. Ambrosius is lucky to escape with his army. The Saxons remain.

Saxons led by Ælle and his sons land at Cymen’s Shore and seize the Regnenses lands creating Suth Seaxe (Sussex). Regnenses exiles crowd in Hantonne, or vanish into the Andredesweald.

##### 478 e.v.

Byzantine Emperor Zeno suppresses rebellion.

Danish King Halfdane reaches his majority and jarl Saevil steps down as regent.

Lucius, heir to the title of "Duke of the Saxon Shore", is born to Duke Ventrius

##### 478-479 e.v.

For years, Aurelius Ambrosius has been building a fleet of ships in the ports of his western lands. In this year, he musters his army and sets sail, sweeping around the southern coast, where he destroys the fleets of the Saxons in Britain. Then he sails to the Continent, destroying all the hostile shipping in the British Sea as he goes. The British army lands in Frisia, punishing them for supporting Saxons with men and ships, doing great damage to the Saxons there, and winning a battle against the barbarians. The Saxons in Britain begin vicious raiding in retaliation, but Prince Uther and half of the army are able to keep them at bay.

##### 479 e.v.

Uhtred mac Uhtred is born. Duke Edaris's father is killed by Cambrian riders. Paschent, the last British son of Vortigern, invades Cumbria with a largely Saxon army to regain his father’s throne, but is defeated by the King of Malahaut and Corneus Duke of Lindsey at the Battle of Carrick. Paschent flees to Ireland, where he allies himself to Gillomanius.

##### 480 e.v.

Jasper's child is born and given to the fairies. Angus mac Uhtred is born. Duke Edaris inherits.