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Ceint (Cantiacum)
The kingdom in which the first of Vortigern's newly imported Jutish
foederati were settled is known only through traditional stories about the Saxon
revolt of 450. It was probably a re-emergence of the pre-Roman
Cantiaci tribal domain, and it does seem to have been a
post-Roman British kingdom, and did have a king (probably
only one in what was undoubtedly a short history). That someone led the battle to try
and regain Ceint is attested by entries in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, although a name
is not mentioned. British sources
 say this was Vortimer, son of Vortigern, but the dispossessed
king of Ceint must have been
involved. |
450 - 457 |
The British Kingdom of
Ceint is overrun at the start of the Saxon revolt. Two important battles are fought after
this, at Aegelesthrep in 455 (456) and Crecganford in 456 (457). There is
also a third battle in 465 (466), perhaps a last-ditch effort to recover Ceint
from the Jutes who are probably already thinking of themselves as the Cantware,
Men of (the Jutish Kingdom of) Kent. |
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