Jutish brothers, leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon invasion of England. According to Bede, they were invited by King Vortigern to help reinforce British resistance to the raiding Picts and Scots (c.449). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle claimed that Hengist and Horsa were joint kings of Kent and that when Horsa was killed (455) in battle, Aesc, the son of Hengist (died c.488), succeeded him.