Nova Anglia: The Anglo-Saxon New England In The East

Zteve T Evans - AncientPages.com - Nova Anglia, or New England, was alleged to have been a community of exiled Anglo-Saxon nobles and warriors who intended it to be their new homeland after being defeated by King William I, the Norman conqueror of England. This community was believed to have been situated in the Black Sea region, possibly Crimea, and established sometime after 1075 and lasted up to the 13^th century.

Not all historians agree it existed or where it was situated and for every expert with a theory there is another with a counter theory. Nevertheless, it is well known that Anglo-Saxons from England had a strong presence in the elite Varangian Guard of the Byzantine emperors who were said to have granted the exiled English permission to create a new homeland for themselves or at least encouraged it.

After William conquered England he had hoped to placate and control the English earls by allowing them to keep part of their lands and status. Nevertheless, after they rebelled in 1069, he confiscated land and status giving them to his Norman barons. After a second rebellion in 1075, he left very few English earls with any power or status. With the failure of the uprisings any hope the rebels retained of driving the Normans from England evaporated. However, a bitter hardcore of disaffected earls and warriors remained who were unwilling to live under a Norman rule and went into exile in search of a new home abroad where they could build a Nova Anglia, a New England, to their liking.

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