1010s in England
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| 990s 10th century in England Events from the 10th century in the Kingdom of England.-Events:* 902** Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral.* 910–920** Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, and Æthelflæd, ruler of Mercia, conquer most of the Danelaw.... | 1000s 1000s in England Events from the 1000s in England.-Events:* 1000** English fleet invades the Isle of Man.** English invasion of Cumbria fails.** Heroic poem The Battle of Maldon composed.* 1001** First Battle of Alton against Danish raiders.... | 1010s | 1020s 1020s in England Events from the 1020s in England.-Events:* 1020** Rotunda of Bury St Edmunds Abbey constructed.** Aethelnoth enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.* 1021* 1022* 1023** Siward, a Dane, appointed Earl of Northumbria.... | 1030s 1030s in England Events from the 1030s in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - Canute , Harold Harefoot-Events:* 1030* 1031** King Canute invades Scotland and forces the submission of Malcolm II of Scotland.* 1032* 1033... |
Events from the 1010s in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Incumbents
Monarch - Ethelred the UnreadyEthelred the Unready
Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II , was king of England . He was son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth. Æthelred was only about 10 when his half-brother Edward was murdered...
(to December 1013), Sweyn Forkbeard (to 3 February 1014), Ethelred the Unready (23 April 1016), Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside or Edmund II was king of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut...
(to 30 November 1016), Canute
Canute the Great
Cnut the Great , also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, historian Norman F...
Events
- 1010
- Battle of RingmereBattle of RingmereNorse sagas recorded a battle at Hringmaraheior; Old English Hringmere-hūō, modern name Ringmere Heath.The sack of Thetford occurred in 1004...
: DanishDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
leader Thorkell the Tall defeats English army, and ravages East AngliaEast AngliaEast Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...
and MerciaMerciaMercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands...
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- Battle of Ringmere
- 1011
- Danes capture Canterbury, taking AlphegeAlphegeÆlfheah , officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury. He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey...
, the Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
as a prisoner. - Byrhtferth of Ramsey writes his Manual, on the subject of timeTimeTime is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
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- Danes capture Canterbury, taking Alphege
- 1012
- April - King Ethelred the UnreadyEthelred the UnreadyÆthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II , was king of England . He was son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth. Æthelred was only about 10 when his half-brother Edward was murdered...
pays £48,000 DanegeldDanegeldThe Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century...
. - 19 April - Danes kill Alphege before leaving the country.
- April - King Ethelred the Unready
- 1013
- King Sweyn I of DenmarkSweyn I of DenmarkSweyn I Forkbeard was king of Denmark and England, as well as parts of Norway. His name appears as Swegen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and he is also known in English as Svein, Swein, Sven the Dane, and Tuck.He was a Viking leader and the father of Cnut the Great...
invades England forcing King Ethelred to flee to NormandyNormandyNormandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
. - July - Sweyn proclaimed as King within the DanelawDanelawThe Danelaw, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the "Danes" held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons. It is contrasted with "West Saxon law" and "Mercian law". The term has been extended by modern historians to...
. - December - Sweyn gains control of all of England.
- LyfingLyfing, Archbishop of CanterburyLyfing was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells and Archbishop of Canterbury.-Life:Lyfing was born "Ælfstan" and took his ecclesiastical name from leof-carus ....
enthroned as Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
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- King Sweyn I of Denmark
- 1014
- 3 February - Sweyn dies and his son CanuteCanute the GreatCnut the Great , also known as Canute, was a king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden. Though after the death of his heirs within a decade of his own and the Norman conquest of England in 1066, his legacy was largely lost to history, historian Norman F...
is proclaimed King of England by the Vikings. - March - Ethelred returns to reclaim his throne whilst Canute returns to Denmark to enforce his rule there.
- Wulfstan II, Archbishop of YorkWulfstan II, Archbishop of YorkWulfstan was an English Bishop of London, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York. He should not be confused with Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York or Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester. He is thought to have begun his ecclesiastical career as a Benedictine monk. He became the Bishop of London in 996...
writes Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, describing the Danes as "God's judgement on England".
- 3 February - Sweyn dies and his son Canute
- 1015
- August - Canute launches an invasion of England.
- 1016
- 23 April - King Ethelred dies, and is succeeded by his son Edmund IronsideEdmund IronsideEdmund Ironside or Edmund II was king of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut...
. - May - Battle of BrentfordBattle of Brentford (1016)The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May and 18 October between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Canute...
: King Edmund defeats Canute. - Canute besieges London.
- 18 October - Battle of AshingdonBattle of AshingdonThe Battle of Assandun was fought on 18 October 1016. There is dispute over whether Assandun may actually be today's Ashdon, or the long supposed Ashingdon, in southeast Essex, England....
: Canute defeats King Edmund, leaving the latter as king of WessexWessexThe Kingdom of Wessex or Kingdom of the West Saxons was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest...
only. - 30 November - King Edmund dies and Canute takes control of the whole country.
- 23 April - King Ethelred dies, and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside
- 1017
- July - Canute marries Ethelred's widow Emma of NormandyEmma of NormandyEmma , was a daughter of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, by his second wife Gunnora. She was Queen consort of England twice, by successive marriages: first as second wife to Æthelred the Unready of England ; and then second wife to Cnut the Great of Denmark...
. - Canute divies England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, and NorthumbriaNorthumbriaNorthumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...
controlled by Godwin, Earl of WessexGodwin, Earl of WessexGodwin of Wessex , was one of the most powerful lords in England under the Danish king Cnut the Great and his successors. Cnut made him the first Earl of Wessex...
, Leofric, Earl of MerciaLeofric, Earl of MerciaLeofric was the Earl of Mercia and founded monasteries at Coventry and Much Wenlock. Leofric is remembered as the husband of Lady Godiva.-Life and political influence:...
, Thorkell the Tall, and Eiríkr HákonarsonEiríkr HákonarsonEiríkr Hákonarson or Eric of Norway or Eric of Hlathir was earl of Lade, ruler of Norway and earl of Northumbria.-Background:...
respectively.
- July - Canute marries Ethelred's widow Emma of Normandy
- 1018
- Canute succeeds his brother Harald II of DenmarkHarald II of DenmarkHarald II of Denmark was King of Denmark from 1014 to 1018. He was the eldest son of Sweyn I of Denmark and Gunhilda, and was regent while his father was fighting Ethelred the Unready in England. He inherited the Danish throne in 1014, and held it while his brother, the later king Cnut the Great...
on the Danish throne. - Buckfast AbbeyBuckfast AbbeyBuckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Dedicated to Saint Mary, it was founded in 1018 and run by the Cistercian order from 1147 until it was destroyed under the Dissolution of the Monasteries...
founded in DevonDevonDevon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
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- Canute succeeds his brother Harald II of Denmark
- 1019
Births
- 1016
- King Harold HarefootHarold HarefootHarold Harefoot was King of England from 1037 to 1040. His cognomen "Harefoot" referred to his speed, and the skill of his huntsmanship. He was the son of Cnut the Great, king of England, Denmark, and Norway by Ælfgifu of Northampton...
(died 1040)
- King Harold Harefoot
- 1018
- King Harthacanute (died 1042)
Deaths
- 1010
- Ælfric of EynshamÆlfric of EynshamÆlfric of Eynsham was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian , Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist...
abbot (born c. 955)
- Ælfric of Eynsham
- 1012
- 19 April - AlphegeAlphegeÆlfheah , officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury. He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey...
, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 954)
- 19 April - Alphege
- 1016
- April 23 - King Ethelred the UnreadyEthelred the UnreadyÆthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II , was king of England . He was son of King Edgar and Queen Ælfthryth. Æthelred was only about 10 when his half-brother Edward was murdered...
(born c. 968) - November 30 - King Edmund IronsideEdmund IronsideEdmund Ironside or Edmund II was king of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut...
- April 23 - King Ethelred the Unready
- 1017
- December - Eadric StreonaEadric StreonaEadric Streona was an ealdorman of the English Mercians. His name a loose translation of the Anglo-Saxon "the Grasper." Streona is historically regarded as the greatest traitor of the Anglo-Saxon period in English history....
, ealdorman
- December - Eadric Streona