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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Establishment and migration=== | ===Establishment and migration=== | ||
The permanent settlement of the region by the ancestors of the [[Ænglish people]] occurred in the late 7th century, although Ænglish people had alternatively raided and settled portions of [[Great Levantia]] since at least the 4th century. Recognizably Ænglish principalities formed and exerted pressure on the northmost members of the [[Latin League]], with settling Ænglish warlords and tribes beginning to settle in previously [[Latinic people|Latinic]] cities, ruling over Latinics and intermarrying with them. The oncoming Ænglish people also extensively feuded with the [[Garán people]] of what would later become [[Carolina]]. The area later became loosely part of the [[Holy Levantine Empire]] under [[Conchobar I, Emperor of the Levantines]] and then part of the [[Eastern Kingdom of the Levantines|Eastern]] and [[Western Kingdom of the Levantines|Western Kingdoms of the Levantines]] beginning in 917. The later fall of the Western Kingdom lead to consistent Gothic incursions into the newly reformed Holy Levantine Empire beginning in 965; the non-Christianized Goths indiscriminately targeted border populations of the Empire, leading to decades of fighting between the Ænglish and Goths. | |||
===Marcher period=== | ===Marcher period=== | ||
In 1042, Emperor Leo II issued a Golden Bull reorganizing what would later become Anglei into the Ænglish March in order to provide a firmer border defense for the Empire. The newly created March encompassed all lands settled by Ænglish people in addition to all other western border territories not part of [[Carolina]]. Duke of Holchester Edmund II Æthelsbert, previously a vassal of the Emperor under the Kingdom of Dericania, was elevated to Margrave of the Ænglish and given Imperial immediacy. | |||
===Kingdom period=== | ===Kingdom period=== | ||
In 1278, the power and prestige of the expanded March was such that the Emperor of the Levantines elevated the Margrave of the Ænglish to royal dignity, creating the Kingdom of Angla, also sometimes referred to as "Anglia", "Ænglia", or "Ænglaland". | |||
In 1464, the [[Ultmar Crusade]] was largely complete, creating the predecessor of modern [[Yonderre]]. The creation of this crusader state ended more than five centuries of the Ænglish serving as the western protectors of Christendom and the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. With the Ænglish state's original ''raison d'etre'' now exhausted, the Kings of Angla began to increasingly turn to the internal affairs of the Holy Levantine Empire. | |||
Religious upheaval and disagreement dominated Angla throughout much of the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kingdom was the site of a major civil war between orthodox Catholics and utraquists from the 1460s onward. The lack of religious cohesion lead to the rise of other Catholic heresies throughout the Kingdom, creating an environment of considerable skepticism towards Catholic orthodoxy. Many novel Christian sects rose and were subsequently destroyed in the 1460s and 1470s. Although the Ultraquist War ended in 1478, the religious upheaval allowed proto-Protestants and, later, early Protestant reformers to make large converts among the Ænglish population. Consequently, the Kingdom was among the first realms to convert to Protestantism, as King Godwin II embraced it in 1523. By 1530, most modern scholars estimate a full sixty percent of Ænglish within the Kingdom were Protestant, though inter-Protestant disputes soon continued the century of religious disagreements and occasional violence that plagued the Kingdom. | |||
===Second Great War=== | ===Second Great War=== | ||
Anglei declared its neutrality in the [[Second Fratricide]], declaring it a "[[Derian people|Derian]] internal matter", and remained neutral with the conflict's escalation into the [[Second Great War]]. Despite its neutrality, the country was invaded by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] on April 14th and capitulated on April 17th. The country remained occupied until the [[Treaty of Corcra]] ended the Levantine theater of the war. Throughout the occupation, the country's neutral status was maintained and occupying forces were primarily concerned with ensuring military and supply transit through the country as well as the open status of the [[Carolina-Grand Canal]]. | Anglei declared its neutrality in the [[Second Fratricide]], declaring it a "[[Derian people|Derian]] internal matter", and remained neutral with the conflict's escalation into the [[Second Great War]]. Despite its neutrality, the country was invaded by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] on April 14th and capitulated on April 17th. The country remained occupied until the [[Treaty of Corcra]] ended the Levantine theater of the war. Throughout the occupation, the country's neutral status was maintained and occupying forces were primarily concerned with ensuring military and supply transit through the country as well as the open status of the [[Carolina-Grand Canal]]. | ||