Sussex (from Old English Suð Seaxe, southern Saxony), one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England . It ultimately fell in the modern counties area East Sussex and West Sussex together , although Hastings in East Sussex seems to be separate at times. Following the tradition preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , some Aelle ended up in ad 477 at a place now by the sea, south of Selsey Bill covered and defeated the British. Archaeological evidence indicates that there was Germanic settlement in the area from the 5th century. Venerable Bede writing in the 8th century says so Aelle had supremacy over all peoples south of the Humber, the only king of Sussex who held this eminence. In the 680s The expelled from Northumbria St. Wilfrid spent several years promoting southern Saxony to Christianity to Convert . At that time their king was Æthelwalh, but after his death Sussex was divided among several kings. At the beginning of the reign (757–796) of Offa by Mercia there were still kings but later they are referred to as Eldormen. In the 9th century Sussex fell to the kings of Wessex.
The Frankish peoples were a group of Germanic tribes who inhabited the lower and middle Rhine Rivers around the 3rd century AD. The Franks were the most powerful political organization in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. During centuries of expansion, they absorbed a large number of peoples i