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18 October – Battle of Ashingdon: Cnut defeats King Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only. [ 2] 30 November – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole country. [ 2] 1017. c. July – Cnut marries Æthelred's widow Emma of Normandy. [ 1] Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and ...
Religion. April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury in England, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay a ransom of 3,000 pounds for his release). May 12 – Pope Sergius IV dies after a 3-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Benedict VIII as the 143rd pope of the Catholic Church.
Ælfheah[ a][ b] ( c. 953 – 19 April 1012), more commonly known today as Alphege, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury. He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey. His reputation for piety and sanctity led to his promotion to the episcopate and, eventually, to his becoming archbishop.
April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury in England, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay a ransom of 3,000 pounds for his release). May 12 – Pope Sergius IV dies after a 3-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Benedict VIII as the 143rd pope of the Catholic Church.
Æthelred II ( Old English: Æþelræd, [ n 1] pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016. [ 1] His epithet comes from the Old English word unræd meaning "poorly advised"; it is a pun on his ...
Cholsey Abbey, a nunnery, is founded in the upper Thames valley by dowager queen Ælfthryth. 988. 19 May – death of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded by Æthelgar. 990. 13 February – death of Æthelgar, Archbishop of Canterbury. Sigeric the Serious enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. 991.
[47] [48] Sweyn continued his raid in England and in 1004 his Viking army looted East Anglia, plundered Thetford and sacked Norwich, before he once again returned to Denmark. [49] Further raids took place in 1006–1007, and, in 1009–1012, Thorkell the Tall led a Viking invasion into England. [citation needed]
History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).