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The Britons (*Pritanī, Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons [1] or Ancient Britons, were the indigenous Celtic people [2] who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others). [2]
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [22] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.
It is Bede who provides the most vivid picture of a late sixth- and early seventh-century Anglian warlord in action, in the person of Æthelfrith of Northumbria, King of Bernicia (a kingdom with a non-English name), who rapidly built up a personal 'empire' by military victories over the Britons of the North, the Scots of Dalriada, the Angles of ...
Britons invited the Saxons to the island to repel them but after they vanquished the Scots and Picts, the Saxons turned against the Britons. Kingdoms and tribes in Britain, c. AD 600 The epic poem Beowulf, set in 6th century Scandinavia, composed c. 700–1000 AD. Seven kingdoms are traditionally identified as being established by these migrants.
The use of Britons for the inhabitants of Great Britain is derived from the Old French bretun, the term for the people and language of Brittany, itself derived from Latin and Greek, e.g. the Βρίττωνες of Procopius. [28] It was introduced into Middle English as brutons in the late 13th century. [40]
Celts: Britons (Cornish, English and Welsh) and Gaels (Irish, Manx and Scots) [6] The Bretons ( / ˈ b r ɛ t ɒ n z , - ən z , - ɒ̃ z / ; [ 7 ] Breton : Bretoned or Vretoned , [ 8 ] Breton pronunciation: [breˈtɔ̃nɛt] ) are an ethnic group native to Brittany , north-western France .
Ancient Britons come mainly from Spain; An audio-visual presentation by Dr Mike Weale of UCL talking about genetic evidence for migration; Britain BC Episode 1, the first episode of the film of Dr. Francis Pryor, a known expert on the Bronze Age, about British civilization, flourishing long before the Romans.
In the same period there were migrations of Britons to the Armorican peninsula (Brittany and Normandy in modern-day France): initially around 383 during Roman rule, but also c. 460 and in the 540s and 550s; the 460s migration is thought to be a reaction to the fighting during the Anglo-Saxon mutiny between about 450 to 500, as was the migration ...