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Source Title Historia Regum
Scholarly Source Dating c. 1000 x s xii e

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Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Symeonis monachi opera omnia T. Arnold Symeonis monachi opera omnia London 1885 91-95

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Whitelock, Dorothy
English Historical Documents c. 500-1042
London and New York 1979 277-280

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  80 On 888 prince Beocca 2 carried to Rome the alms of King Alfred 8. On that journey died Æthelswith 1, the sister of the same king, and was buried in Pavia.
2 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  81 In 890 abbot Beornhelm 8 conveyed to Rome the alms of king Alfred 8 and the West Saxons [Anonymi 930].
3 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  81 In 890 died Guthrum 1, King of the Northumbrians. King Alfred 8 had received him in baptism, and called him Æþelstan.
4 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  81 In 892 Wulfhere 8, bishop of York, died in the thirty-ninth year of his episcopate.
5 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  81 In 893 the East Saxons and Northumbrians gave hostages and swore fealty to king Alfred 8 against the pagans, who had now returned into England.
6 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  81 In 894 King Guthfrith 3 died.
7 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 899 King Alfred 8 died when he had reigned 28 years, and his son Edward 2 succeeded him, having been diligently admonished by his father that he should especially honour St Cuthbert 1.
8 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 899 bishop Eardwulf 18 died in Chester-le-Street, where he had transferred the body of St Cuthbert 1, with which for nine years he had fled before the army of the pagans from place to place in great toil and penury. Cuthheard 2 succeeded him in the bishopric.
9 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 900 Æthelbald 15 was consecrated to the bishopric of the church of York.
10 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 901 Osbrith 1 was expelled from his kingdom.
11 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 902 Beorhtsige 7 was killed.
12 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 906 king Edward 2, forced by necessity, established a peace with the East Angles and Northumbrians.
13 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 910 the English and the Danes fought at Tettenhall. King Edward 2 took London and Oxford and what belonged to it.
14 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 912 King Ragnald 1 and Earl Óttirr 1 and Oswulf 38 Crakabain stormed and sacked Dunblane.
15 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 914 king Niall 1 was killed by his brother Sihtric 1.
16 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  82 In 919 king Ragnald 1 took York by storm.
17 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 920 king Sihtric 1 destroyed Davenport.
18 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 923 king Edward 2 died, leaving the rule to his son Æthelstan 18.
19 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 925 bishop Wigred 4 was consecrated to the bishopric of St Cuthbert.
20 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 927 king Æthelstan 18 put king Guthfrith 5 to flight from the kingdom of the Britons.
21 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 933 king Æthelstan 18 ordered his brother Edwin 4 to be drowned at sea.
22 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 934 king Æthelstan 18, going towards Scotland with a great army, came to the tomb of St Cuthbert 1, commended himself and his expedition to his protection, and conferred on him many and diverse gifts befitting a king, as well as estates... He then subdued his enemies, laid waste Scotland as far as Dunnottar and Wertemorum with a land force, and ravaged with a naval force as far as Caithness.
23 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  83 In 937 Æthelstan 18 fought at Wendun and put to flight King Olaf 3 with 615 ships, and also Constantine 2, king of the Scots, and the king of the Cumbrians [Eógan 1] with all their host.
24 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 In 939 king Æthelstan 18 died, and his brother Edmund 14 succeeded him in the kingdom.
25 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 In 939 king Olaf 3 first came to York, and then, marching south, besieged Northampton. But accomplishing nothing there, he turned his army to Tamworth and ravaged everything round about it. When he reached Leicester on his return, king Edmund 14 met him with an army. There was no severe fighting, for the two archbishops, Oda 3 and Wulfstan 14, reconciled the kings to one another and put an end to the battle. When peace had thus been made, the Watling Street was the boundary of each kingdom. Edmund 14 held the part to the south, Olaf 3 kingdom to the north.
26 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 Olaf 3, when he had ravaged the church of St Baldhere 1 and burnt Tyninghame, soon perished. Therefore the men of York [Anonymi 10066] laid waste the island of Lindisfarne and killed many people [Anonymi 10067].
27 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 In 941 a son of Sihtric 1, Olaf 4 by name, ruled over the Northumbrians.
28 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 In 943 the Northumbrians drove out their king, Olaf 4, from the kingdom.
29 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  84 In 944 king Edmund 14 drove out two kings [Olaf 4 and Ragnald 2], and obtained the kingdom of the Northumbrians.
30 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 In 948 king Edmund 14 was killed and his brother Eadred 16 received the kingdom.
31 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 Eadred 16 went about the whole of Northumbria and took possession, but after swearing fealty to him the Northumbrians set up a certain Dane, Eric 1, as king.
32 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 When king Eadred 16 had ravaged Northumbria and was then returning, the Northumbrians sailed forth and destroyed the rear of his army. The king determined to lead his army back and utterly destroy the province, but the inhabitants cast off the king [Eric 1] they had appointed, and speedily placated Eadred 16 with gifts.
33 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 In 951 Hywel 2, king of the Britons, died.
34 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 In 953 eorl Oswulf 36 received the earldom of the Northumbrians.
35 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 King Eadred 16 died, and Eadwig 4, son of Edmund 14, succeeded.
36 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 In 956 the blessed Abbot Dunstan 1 was expelled by Eadwig 4.
37 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 In 957, at the death of Eadwig 4, his brother Edgar 11 succeeded to the kingdom and held it for seventeen years.
38 Event NorthernAnnals.SecondSet  85 After Edgar 11 reigned his son Edward 12, who, having been slain by the treachery of his stepmother [Ælfthryth 8], rests in Shaftsbury.