Sweyn died the following year and Ethelred returned to re-establish himself and drive Canute back to Denmark. Canute
returned in 1015 with a strong fleet and army. He subdued the country and was declared King on the death of
Ethelred in 1615, excepting by London which recognised Edmund Ironside.
A peace conference was arranged after Canute's victory at Assandune in Essex at which a compromise was reached;
Canute would reign over Northumbria and the North; Edmund would reign over East Anglia, London and
Wessex. The
agreement continued until the death of Edmund in 1017 when Canute was recognised as King of the English.
| 515 | | The West Saxon
advance halted by the Britons at the Battle of Badon (possibly led by a leader named Arthur)
(FE Haliday,1959)c. 500 Ambrosius Aurelianus defeats Saxons at Badon Hill |
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| 689 | | Death of King Caedwalla of Wessex in Rome |
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| 689 | | King Caedwalla of Wessex, accompanied by
St Aldhelm, baptized by Pope Sergius I |
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| 705 | | King Ine established Sherborne as the bishopric of Wessex and appointed his kinsman Aldhelm as its first bishop |
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| 709.May.25 | | Death of St Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (Wessex), at Doulting in Somerset
His body was carried back to the Abbey he founded at Malmesbury for burial |
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| circa 710 | | King Ina of the Wessex attempts to destroy the Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia |
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| 722 | | Roderic, King of the Britons in Wales and Cornwall, repels Adelred, King of Wessex |
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| 787 | | Viking Danes visit the coasts of Wessex |
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| 802 | | Egbert succeeds Beorhtric as King of Wessex |
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| 825 | | Egbert defeated the Mercians at the Battle of Ellandun (modern Nether
Wroughton) and Wessex became the dominant Saxon kingdom in England. He also conquered
Kent, Sussex and Essex. |
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| 825 | | Egbert, king of Wessex, repels the Vikings in North Cornwall and returns to route the Mercians at the battle of Ellendune (modern Wroughton, Swindon) assuring the predominance of Wessex
The Cornish defeated by Ecgberht at Gafulford (modern Galford on the River Lew in West Devon)
He also conquered Kent, Sussex and Essex
Check out Nether Wroughton
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| 829 | | Egbert, King of Wessex, conquers Mercia |
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| 830 | | Egbert, King of Wessex, loses Mercia to Wiglaf |
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| 837 | | Egbert of Wessex defeated the allied
Vikings and West Welsh at Hengsdown Hill |
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| 838 | | Egbert of Wessex wins a spectacular victory over the Danish/Cornish allies at Hingston Down (now in Cornwall) |
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| 839 | | Egbert succeeded by Aethelwulf as
King of Wessex |
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| 855 | | Aethelwulf succeeded by Aethelbald as King of Wessex |
| BAAAGBHZ BAAAGEIM |
| 860 | | Aethelbald succeeded by Aethelbert as king of
Wessex |
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| 866 | | Aethelbert succeeded by Aethelred as king of
Wessex |
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| 871.Apr.23 | | Death of king Ethelred I of Wessex, succeeded by his brother Alfred the
Great
Although Alfred never united England under his rule, he is often considered the first English king |
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| 877 | | Battle of Swanage Bay; Alfred the Great wins first English naval victory against the Danes
A Danish fleet left Wareham to relieve their comrades besieged at Exeter by King Alfreds forces. Storms drove 120 of the vessels ashore off Perveril Point before the English galleys could intercept them - the earliest known shipwrecks off the Dorset Coast |
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| 878.May | | Alfred the Great rallied Somerset and Wiltshire and defeated the Danes at the Battle
of Ednington nr Chippenham, Wilts. Guthrum the Danish leader was baptized as a Christian by the Peace
of Wedmore |
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| 886 | | Alfred the Great expelled the Danes from London
Alfred and Guthrum agreed a treaty defining the border of the Danelaw |
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| 888 | | Malmesbury in Wiltshire granted a charter by
King Alfred the Great
... this would make Malmesbury the oldest borough in England |
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| 899 | | Death of Alfred the Great of Wessex. He was succeeded by his son Edward the Elder |
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| 924.Jul.17 | | Death of Edward the Elder, Athelstan becomes
king of Wessex |
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| 927 | | Athelstan of Wessex attacks the south western Celts forcing them to withdraw from Exeter
There is no record of him entering Cornwall - the Cornish king Hywel probably agreed to pay tribute to Athelstan |
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| 936 | | Settlement between Cletic Cornish and King Athelstan of Wessex fixes the east bank of the Tamar as the boundary between Wessex and Cornwall |
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| 937 | | Athelstans crowning victory at the Battle
of Brunanburgh gave the kings of Wessex mastery over England |
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| 939.Oct.22 | | Death of King Athelstan of England, buried at Malmesbury Abbey; succeeded by King Edmund I (-946) |
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| 1002 | | Ealdorman Leofsy banished from Wessex by Ethelred II for the murder of the high steward Eafy (ASC) |
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| 1002 | | The Lady Elfgive, daughter of Richard, comes to Wessex (ASC) |
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| 1003 | | Danish raiders enter Wiltshire (ASC)
Wessex force gathered from Witls. and Hants. to meet the Danes retreat through treachery of Ealdorman Elfric |
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| 1006 | | With Wessex ravaged by the Danes, the court moves to Shropshire (ASC) |
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| 1053.Apr.14 | | Death of Earl Godwin of Wessex at Winchester |
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| 1075 | | The see of Wessex removed from Sherborne in Dorset to Old Sarum, Wilts. |
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