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	Doubts were expressed over Bede's accounts, but archaeology has countered these, and established that a cultural group <u>did</u> pass from Jutland to Kent and the Wight. That they then disappear, as a separate force, from Englsih ~~histiry~~ has been put down to the greater strength of the [[Wessex\|West Saxon]] kingdom(s), which conquered and absorbed their Jutish cousins.		Doubts were expressed over Bede's accounts, but archaeology has countered these, and established that a cultural group <u>did</u> pass from Jutland to Kent and the Wight. That they then disappear, as a separate force, from Englsih history has been put down to the greater strength of the [[Wessex\|West Saxon]] kingdom(s), which conquered and absorbed their Jutish cousins.

	'''Hengest''' and '''Horsa''' are thought to have been their (probably [[myth]]ic leaders, invited in initially around 450CE as mercenaries, by [[Vortigern]], the "proud tyrant", and allowed to settle on the [[Kent]]ish Isle of Thanet. In fact, Hengest may well have been an Anglian, since they were overlords to the Jutish peooples, and it is likely that members of all three Germanic tribes in fact settled in Kent, but that the main Angle and Saxon colonies were elsewhere in England, leaving the Jutes with only their south-coast settlements.		'''Hengest''' and '''Horsa''' are thought to have been their (probably [[myth]]ic leaders, invited in initially around 450CE as mercenaries, by [[Vortigern]], the "proud tyrant", and allowed to settle on the [[Kent]]ish Isle of Thanet. In fact, Hengest may well have been an Anglian, since they were overlords to the Jutish peooples, and it is likely that members of all three Germanic tribes in fact settled in Kent, but that the main Angle and Saxon colonies were elsewhere in England, leaving the Jutes with only their south-coast settlements.

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According to [[Wikipedia]], the '''Jutes''' were a [[Germany|Germanic]] people, believed to have originated from '''Jutland''' (which was called ''Iutum'' in [[Latin]]) in modern [[Denmark]] and from part of the neighbouring coast of East Frisia.

The Jutes, along with the [[Angle]]s, [[Saxon]]s and Frisians, were mentioned in Chronicles amongst the Germanic tribes who sailed across the North Sea to raid and eventually invade [[England]] and [[Scotland]] from the late [[4th century]] A.D. onwards, either displacing, absorbing or destroying the native [[Celt]]ic peoples there.

According to [[Bede]], they ended up settling in [[Kent]], [[Hampshire]] and the Isle of [[Wight]]. There are a number of toponyms that attest to the presence of the Jutes in the area, such as ''Ytene'', which (Wikipaedia, citing Florence of Worcester as a source) states was the contemporary English name for the [[New Forest]].

Doubts were expressed over Bede's accounts, but archaeology has countered these, and established that a cultural group <u>did</u> pass from Jutland to Kent and the Wight. That they then disappear, as a separate force, from Englsih histiry has been put down to the greater strength of the [[Wessex|West Saxon]] kingdom(s), which conquered and absorbed their Jutish cousins.

'''Hengest''' and '''Horsa''' are thought to have been their (probably [[myth]]ic leaders, invited in initially around 450CE as mercenaries, by [[Vortigern]], the "proud tyrant", and allowed to settle on the [[Kent]]ish Isle of Thanet. In fact, Hengest may well have been an Anglian, since they were overlords to the Jutish peooples, and it is likely that members of all three Germanic tribes in fact settled in Kent, but that the main Angle and Saxon colonies were elsewhere in England, leaving the Jutes with only their south-coast settlements.

[[Canterbury]] became their principal capital in Kent, and the Kentish kingdom lasted until 825CE, when it was absorbed by [[Wessex]] as a dependency, finally being extinguished in 860CE when [[Aethelbert]] took the West Saxon throne.

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