A | B |
Rollo | Danish warrior-signed treaty with French and established Norselaw or Normandy |
Alaric | Visigoth chief who sacks Rome in 410 A.D. |
King Alfred the Great | Established Danelaw, built fortresses and first English fighting ships |
Clovis | First King of the Franks and converts to Christianity |
Pope Gregory I | Converts Anglo-Saxons to Christianity after seeing "angels" |
Leif Eriksson | Founded Newfoundland in North America - called in Vinland |
Odacer | Killed by Theodoric, Germanic general who ruled Western Roman Empire from 476 for 15 years |
Bede | Monk who wrote first history of English people and taught English the Christian date method |
King Knut or Canute | Danish king who converts to Christianity, conquers and brings peace and prosperity to England |
Charlemagne | Declared new Roman Emperor by Pope in 800 A.D. |
Rurik | Swedish chief who founded the Kievan Rus |
Charles Martel | AKA "The Hammer" - Led troops in Battle of Tours |
Saint Patrick | Converts the Irish to Christianity |
Attila | Leader of Huns who conquers East or Ostrogoths |
Erik the Red | Founded colony on Greenland |