Jutes
Meaning
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
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Anglian kingdoms in England seeAlso Angles, Saxons and Jutes throughout England According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Northumbria, East Anglia and Mercia.
East Kent became a kingdom of the Jutes during the 5th century citation and was known as Cantia from about 730 and recorded as Cent in 835. The early medieval inhabitants of the county were known as the Cantwara, or Kent people.
Collectively known as the " Anglo-Saxons ", these were Angles and Saxons from what is now the Danish/German border area and Jutes from the Jutland peninsula.
Continental Saxons Saxony Possible locations of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes before their migration to Britain.
The Kentish region, settled by the Jutes from Jutland, has the scantiest literary remains.
There is both documentary and archaeological evidence that Kent was primarily colonized by Jutes, from the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.