{"slug": "vortigern", "label": "Vortigern", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortigern", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326585", "qid": "Q326585", "description": "5th-century warlord in Britain", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [428, 459], "span_label": ["428 CE", "459 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "anglo-saxons", "label": "Anglo-Saxons", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "celtic-britons", "label": "Celtic Britons", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "great-britain", "label": "Great Britain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "isle-of-thanet", "label": "Isle of Thanet", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "romano-british-culture", "label": "Romano-British culture", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "flavius-aetius", "label": "Flavius Aetius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kent", "label": "Kent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germanic-peoples", "label": "Germanic peoples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hadrian-s-wall", "label": "Hadrian's Wall", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 428, "year_label": "428 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Vortigern invites a number of Germanic warriors to aid him in consolidating his position in Britain, according to the Historia Brittonum. He hires Saxons who are probably settled in Kent as mercenaries to fight against the Picts and the Scots beyond Hadrian's Wall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321157185#Europe", "title": "428", "revid": 1321157185, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 437, "year_label": "437 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Wallop: Ambrosius Aurelianus, leader of the Romano-British, defeats the Anglo Saxons under King Vortigern. He is given all the kingdoms of the western side of Britain (according to Historia Brittonum).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205048#Europe", "title": "437", "revid": 1349205048, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Guoloph: Vitalinus (possibly Vortigern) is defeated at the hands of Ambrosius Aurelianus, and a combined force of Romano-British forces from across southern Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Europe", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 446, "year_label": "446 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Britons and Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, under King Vortigern, appeal to Flavius Aetius (magister militum of Gaul) for military assistance in their struggle against the Picts and Irish. Aetius has enough problems with Attila the Hun and is unable to send any help (according to Groans of the Britons).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739578#Europe", "title": "446", "revid": 1364739578, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 447, "year_label": "447 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Vortigern, king of the Britons, receives the Saxon leaders Hengist and Horsa \"as friends\" and grants the brothers the Isle of Thanet, most easterly point of Kent (England).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367502819#Europe", "title": "447", "revid": 1367502819, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 449, "year_label": "449 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Traditional date – Hengist and Horsa, by tradition chieftains of the Jutes, land at Isle of Thanet, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at the invitation of Vortigern. The Britons form a military alliance with them against the Picts and Scoti. Bede considers this the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354021999#Europe", "title": "449", "revid": 1354021999, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 459, "year_label": "459 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "King Vortigern is burnt to death, while being besieged by a Romano-British force under Ambrosius Aurelianus at Ganarew (Herefordshire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077454#Britannia", "title": "459", "revid": 1267077454, "section": "Events › By place › Britannia"}}, {"year": 459, "year_label": "459 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Vortigern, king of the Britons (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077454#Deaths", "title": "459", "revid": 1267077454, "section": "Deaths"}}]}