| | | | |
•Eric
Bloodaxe returns to York where he becomes ruler of the Norse kingdom.
•
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, is imprisoned by King Eadred for supporting
claimants to the kingdom of York. |
| | |
•Eric
Bloodaxe is expelled from York once again, this time by the Northumbrians.
He is then killed in an ambush. King Eadred takes the Northumbrian kingdom
and ends Norse rule, which began in 876.
•
Malcolm I of Scotland dies, to be succeeded by his cousin Indulf.
•
Wulfstan is released and restored to his archbishopric. |
|
•23
Nov: King Eadred dies in Frome (childless) and is succeeded by Eadwig, son
of Edmund. |
| | |
•Eadwig
exiles Dunstan,
Abbot of Glastonbury.
•
The Mercians and Northumbrians reject Eadwig, who is widely thought to be
feckless, and elect his brother Edgar
to rule them. Eadwig continues to rule
Wessex.
|
| | |
•1
Oct: King Eadwig dies and is succeeded by Edgar.
Dunstan
is recalled.
•
Edgar
begins a reform of the legal codes and recognises a large degree of legal
autonomy for the Danes settled in England. |
| | |
•Dunstan
becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. |
|
•
Indulf, King of Scots, is killed by a Norwegian raiding party. He is succeeded
by Dub, son of Malcolm I. |
| | | | |
•
Battle of Duncrub (near Perth):King Dub of Scots is challenged in battle
by Cullen, son of Indulf. Dub is victorious. |
|
•
Dub, King of Scots, is killed in battle at Forres. He is succeeded by Cuilén,
son of Indulf. |
| | | | |
•
King Edgar
orders retribution on the people of Thanet, who had robbed Northumbrian
merchants. |
|
•Council
of Winchester: the Regularis Concordia, rules for English monastic
life written by St Aethelwold of Winchester at the instigation of Dunstan,
is approved.
|
|
•
In a battle fought in Lothian, Cuilén, King of Scots, is killed by
Rhydderch, the son of the king of Strathclyde. Cuilén is succeeded
by Kenneth II, brother of the former king, Dub.
|
| | |
•11
May: Edgar
is crowned king of all England at Bath at the age of 30; the ceremony is
devised by Dunstan.
He then journeys to Chester where eight British kings pay him homage by
rowing him on the River Dee. |
| | |
•8
July: King
Edgar dies and is succeeded by his son Edward, still a youth. |
| | | | |
•18
Mar: King Edward is murdered at Corfe in Dorset by supporters of his half-brother
Aethelred.
He later comes to be regarded as a martyr. Aethelred,
only 12 or 13 years old, succeeds him as king. |
| | |
•St
Aethelwold rebuilds Winchester Cathedral.
•
Danish raids again begin to threaten the coast of England: Southampton,
Thanet and Chester are attacked. Raiders use the ports of Normandy
as bolt-holes.
•
Battle of Tara: Malachy II king of Meath, defeats the Danes.
•
Battle of Luncarty: Kenneth II defeats the Danes. |
| | | | | | |
•1
Aug: St Aethelwold dies.
|
| | | | | | |
•19
April: Dunstan,
archbishop of Canterbury, dies aged 63.
|
| | | | |
•1
Mar: a treaty is signed between King
Aethelred and Richard of Normandy, preventing either from assisting
the other's enemies.
•
Aug: Battle of Maldon; Bryhtnoth of Essex is killed by a Danish raiding
force led by Olaf Tryggvason, an event immortalised in Old English poem
of the same name. Danegeld
is paid to buy-off the raiders. |
|
•29
Feb: St Oswald, the Archbishop of York, dies. |
|
•
Danes sack Bamburgh, Northumbria. |
|
•London
is besieged by Sweyn,
son of Harold king of Denmark, and Olaf Tryggvason. Their force is the largest
Danish army to raid England for over fifty years. They are bought-off with
Danegeld.
|
|
•Kenneth
II of Scotland is killed and succeeded by Constantine III, son of Cuilén.
Scotland
975-1034.
|
| | |
•A
Danish force ravages the West Country and moves throughout southern England
in 998 and 999.
•
Constantine III of Scotland is killed and succeeded by Kenneth III who shares
the throne with his son, Giric II. |
| | | | | |
