The Angles Originated in either Schleswig-Holstein or Denmark, in the 5th century they settled in eastern Britain in East Angles (East Anglia), Middle Angles (East Midlands), Mercians (Midlands), and north of the Humber. It it is from the word Angles that we have ' Englaland ' and thereby England ...   The Saxons Possibly named from their single-edged seax ('sword'). Under pressure from the migrating Franks they spread from their homelands on the Danish peninsula into Italy and the Frisian lands and engaged in piracy on the North Sea and English Channel between the 3rd and 5th centuries. The Saxons established the kingdoms of the East Saxons (Essex), the South Saxons (Sussex), and the West Saxons (Wessex).   The Jutes Most probably from Jutland who according to Bede, were invited by King Vortigern to help reinforce British resistance to the raiding Picts and Scots c.449 . The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle claimed that Hengist and Horsa were joint kings of Kent and that when Horsa was killed in battle, Aesc, the son of Hengist, succeeded him. .