Fall Of The Roman Empire Essay

Since the Roman Empire was falling apart, the Romans abandoned Britannia. With the Romans vacated, the Celtic tribes started warring with each other once again. One of the chieftans requested help from some Germanic tribes. Angles, Saxons and Jutes. When the fighting ceased, the Germanic tribes didn’t return to their homeland. In the end, they pushed all the Celtic tribes to Wales and founded 7 kingdoms later known as the Anglo – Saxon heptachy.

Towards the end of the 10th century the Danes invaded England and founded their own kingdom – Danelaw. Another group of Danes conquered Paris. The king of France granted them some land that later became the Duchy of Normandy with its people known as Normans (from North Men – Viking). They setteled there and learned the

Valois) over the succession to the French throne. Because, you know, way back the Normans were in France and then in England... complicated, let’s move on. Parallel to the war, the plague ravaged Europe, killing one third of the population.

Henry VI inherited the throne at age one and the regent lost most of England’s possesions in France to Joan of Arc. Later the Wars of the Roses broke out. The conflict was your standard fight over the throne. Long story short, Henry VII won and founded the House of Tudor.

His son, Henry VIII, is one of the most notorious rules of England. He wanted to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon, but the Pope wouldn’t allow it, so he proclaimed himself head of the Church of England, divorced her and married Anne Boleyn, whom he had beheaded a few years lated. He had six wives in total nad three kids – Mary I, the „bloody Mary“ one who burned so many people at the stake and Elizabeth I. Long story short, she refused to marry, so her cousin Mary Stuart tried to take over the throne, Elizabeth kept her imprisoned for nearly 20 years before having her