Location: Ashingdon / Essex

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref. Primary Person Short Description
Event EncomiumEmmae  2.11   Anonymi 1762 returned to London and sought wiser counsels.
Event EncomiumEmmae  2.11   Anonymi 1762 passed the night among the bodies of the dead and in the morning buried them.
Event EncomiumEmmae  2.9-10   Edmund 24, after having assembled forces during the whole of Quadragesima, attempted to expel the Danes and battle was joined with many falling on both sides, until the evening, when the English (Anonymi 1764) fled.
Status EncomiumEmmae  2.9 Anonymi 1765 held status of Nobleman / Nobleman
Occupation EncomiumEmmae  2.9 Anonymi 1764 Army
Possession EncomiumEmmae  2.9 Anonymi 1755 suits of mail
Event ASC (C-F)  1016 CDEF(OE)   Eadnoth 11 and various other named persons and the duguth of all England (Anonymi 2318) were slain there [sc. at Ashingdon].
Event ASC (C-F)  1016 CDEF(OE and Lat.)   There [sc. at Ashingdon] they [sc. Edmund 24 and Anonymi 2297] fiercely joined battle. Cnut 3 gained the victory and won for himself all the people of the English.
Event ASC (C-F)  1016 CDEF(OE and Lat.)   He [sc. Edmund 24] went after Anonymi 2297 and caught up with them among the East Saxons (Anonymi 2315) at the hill called Ashingdon.
Event ASC (C-F)  1020 CDEF(OE and Lat.)   In this year the king [sc. Cnut 3] [CD: and others (named and unnamed)] went to Ashingdon.
Event ASC (C-F)  1020 F(OE and Lat.)   Cnut 3 caused to be built a mynster from stone and lime for the souls of those persons who had been slain there [sc. at Ashingdon].
Event ASC (C-F)  1020 CD   Cnut 3 with others (named and unnamed) consecrated the minster at Ashingdon.
Office ASC (C-F)  1020 F(OE) Stigand 2 held office of Priest
Event WilliamofJumieges.Gesta Normannorum Ducum  V.8   King Cnut 3 sailed his ships over to England. He made for the River Thames and went swiftly up it to the region of London. He and his men [Anonymi 2297] disembarked from their ships and encountered the English [Anonymi 1764], who had gathered together from all over the country at Ashdon [Ashingdon], to inflict upon them a bloody defeat.
Possession LDB  45v (Essex 24:38) Swein 13 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 0.50 hides in Ashingdon, Essex (in 1086)
Office EMC Coin  1999.0073 (N 790 (Short Cross)) Godwine 132 held office of Moneyer for Cnut 3
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1999.0073 (N 790 (Short Cross)) Godwine 132
Office EMC Coin  1999.0073 (N 790 (Short Cross)) Cnut 3 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1999.0073 (N 790 (Short Cross)) Cnut 3