Editing Angles (tribe) (section)

==Anglian kingdoms in England==
{{see also|Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain|Anglo-Saxons|History of Anglo-Saxon England}}
[[File:Britain peoples circa 600.svg|thumb|right|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 [[Northumbria]], [[Kingdom of East Anglia|East Anglia]], and [[Mercia]]. H. R. Loyn has observed in this context that "a sea voyage is perilous to tribal institutions",{{sfnp|Loyn|1991|p=25}} and the apparently tribe-based kingdoms were formed in England. Early times had two northern kingdoms (Bernicia and Deira) and two midland ones (Middle Anglia and Mercia), which had by the seventh century resolved themselves into two Angle kingdoms, viz., Northumbria and Mercia.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

Northumbria held suzerainty amidst the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] presence in the British Isles in the 7th century, but was eclipsed by the rise of Mercia in the 8th century. Both kingdoms fell in the great assaults of the Danish [[Viking]] armies in the 9th century. Their royal houses were effectively destroyed in the fighting, and their Angle populations came under the [[Danelaw]]. Further south, the Saxon kings of [[Wessex]] withstood the Danish assaults. Then in the late 9th and early 10th centuries, the kings of Wessex defeated the Danes and took control of areas inhabited by Angles that were formerly in the Danelaw.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

They united their house in marriage with the surviving Angle royalty and were accepted by the Angles as their kings, ultimately resulting in the [[Kingdom of England]]. The regions of [[East Anglia]] and Northumbria are still known by their original titles. Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast [[Scotland]], including [[Edinburgh]], and as far south as the Humber estuary and even the river Witham.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

The rest of that people stayed at the centre of the Angle homeland in the northeastern portion of the modern German ''Bundesland'' of Schleswig-Holstein, on the Jutland Peninsula. There, a small peninsular area is still called Angeln today and is formed as a triangle drawn roughly from modern [[Flensburg]] on the Flensburger Fjord to the [[City of Schleswig]] and then to Maasholm, on the [[Schlei]] inlet.{{cn|date=May 2025}}