Harold fails to support his brother and they become bitter enemies.ġ066 - Edward dies and Harold Godwinson is chosen as successor, but William of Normandy declares the throne was promised to him. Gruffydd ap Llewellyn is killed by his own troops.ġ064 - According to later Norman chroniclers Harold visits William of Normandy and swears on oath to support his claim to the throneġ065 - Northumbria rebels against Tostig who is exiled. Edward promises the throne to William, Duke of Normandy.ġ052 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex, returns to England.ġ053 - Godwin’s son, Harold, becomes principal adviser to the King.ġ056 - Welsh led by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn attack England and burn Hereford Cathedralġ057 - Edward, son of Edmund Ironside and potential heir to the throne, returns to England but dies mysteriouslyġ063 - Harold Godwinson (later Harold II) and his brother Tostig of Northumberland attack Wales. His wife Lady Godiva according to legend rides naked through the streets of Coventryġ045 - Edward marries Edith daughter of Earl Godwin of Wessexġ051 - Edward quarrels with Godwin and banishes the rebellious Godwin family from England. King Edward The Confessor ( 1042 - 1066 )ġ042 - Harthacanute dies and is succeeded by Edward the Confessor, son of Aethelred II.ġ043 - Earl Leofric founds Coventry Abbey. After the death of his first wife Elfleda he marries Emma of Normandyġ012 - The Danes raid Kent, burning Canterbury Cathedral and murdering Archbishop Alphegeġ013 - King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark lands in England and is proclaimed king Aethelred II the Unready flees to Normandyġ014 - The English recall Aethelred II the Unready as King on the death of Sweyn at Gainsboroughġ015 - King Canute II of Denmark & Norway again invades England King Aethelred II The Unready ( 978 - 1016 )ĩ78 - Aethelred, son of Edgar, becomes King of England following the murder of his half brother Edwardĩ80 - Danes renew their raids on England attacking Chester and Southamptonĩ85 - Sweyn I, Forkbeard, rebels against his father Harold Blue-tooth and deposes himĩ91 - Battle of Maldon: Byrhtnoth of Essex is defeated by Danish invaders Aethelred buys off the Danes with 10,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld)ĩ92 - Aethelred makes a truce with Duke Richard I of Normandyĩ94 - Danes under Sweyn and Norwegians under Olaf Trygvesson sail up river Thames and besiege London bought off by Aethelredġ002 - Aethelred orders a massacre of Danish settlers. Alfred establishes a permanent army and navyĨ91 - Anglo Saxon Chronicle, source of much early British History, begunĨ93 - Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, completes his book The Life of Alfred the GreatĨ94 - Northumbrian and East Angles swear allegiance to Alfred, but promptly break the truce attacking South West England.Ĩ96 - Naval victory over the Danes in the SolentĨ99 - Alfred dies and is buried at Winchester. Danelaw - the territory occupied by the Danes in East Anglia is recognised by AlfredĨ90 - Guthrum dies. Guthrum accepts baptism as a Christian and agrees to leave Wessex and settle in East Anglia.Ĩ84 - Alfred defeats the Danes at RochesterĨ85 - Alfred imposes rules on South WalesĨ86 - Alfred takes London from the Danes. Alfred defeats Guthrum at the battle of Ethandune (Edington) in Wiltshire.Ĩ78 - Treaty of Wedmore divides England into two. 871 - Alfred becomes King of Wessex following the death of his brother AethelredĨ75 - After persistent attacks by Vikings the monks of Lindesfarne travel through Northumbria and Galloway with the Lindesfarne Gospels.Ĩ78 - Guthrum's Danish army invades Wessex, and Alfred takes refuge on the isle of Athelney.
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