There would have still been in mainland Europe in Germany during that era. However, they might, in that time period, have started to settle across most of England, probably excluding the very West of the country were the Celts would have been pushed back to.
The Romans stayed until AD 410, and when Roman rule collapsed, a century and a half of Immigration by Germanic peoples from European mainland followed ie. Angles and Saxons.
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The Anglo-Saxon period begins in the fifth Century A.D., when the Angles, a Germanic tribe from what is now Denmark, came to Britain, which they re-named Engla-lond or "Land of the Angles." The Saxons began coming at about the same time. The period is generally considered to be over with the Norman Conquest of 1066. Our English language has two major dialects to this day, the Anglic dialect of the north, called Scots or Doric or Lallands depending on one's politics, and the Saxon dialect of the South, called Standard English.
By 450 AD, the Anglo-Saxon raids on England were a regular occurrence!
Cause they wanted to...
They invaded Britain in the 5th century :P
Christianity brought to Britain for the first time by St. Augustine, the missionary sent from Pope Gregory to convert the Saxons. Death of King Ceol of Wessex. His brother, Ceolwulf, succeeds him. Ceolwulf reigned over the West- Saxons; and he constantly fought and conquered, sometimes with support from the Angles, the Welsh, the Picts, or the Scots.