Did the Saxons and angles invade toegether?

Answer 1

the angles and saxons weren't different people...so it was easy for them to convince each other...to merge....the reason why they joined together..is to defeat the roman legions that was so strong...that it's even impossible for them to bring them down...but luckily they were able to defeat the roman legions at 408 AD...that's all I know...for this time...I hope it helps and if there are other people who knows more...please help us hehe :)

Answer 2

No. The Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes related to the Belgae and were already in southern England before the Romans arrived. Tacitus mentions the peoples and their language on both sides of the English Channel "differs but little". Even just after 54BC, Julius Caesar states the same information on the Belgae in his "Gallic Wars". It is surely no co-incidence that one of the tribes resident in Yorkshire, the Parisii, had the same name as a tribe in northern Gaul.

There may have been an influx of Saxons after the Romans left Britain but they were not invading, only joining their cousins.

The Angles did invade in the way that small, powerful groups took over the upper echelons of society in the east and north-east after the Roman Armies left. They were, in fact, usurping the former Saxon hierarchy.