"The Attack on Llangorse 19th June AD916 " Topic

"It is not often that the early medieval chroniclers provide us with specific dates. And of a period about which the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is almost silent – Aethelflaed's 'reign' – we are incredibly lucky to have not one date, but two, while the second date enables us to identify a third. The Chronicle tells us that she died on June 12th, 918. But the third, implied, date is the one that interests me today: June 19th, two years before her death, and exactly 1100 years tomorrow.

The 'C' Chronicle of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, incorporating the annals known as The Mercian Register, tells us:

"In this year before midsummer, on 16th June, the day of the festival of St Quiricus the Martyr, abbot Ecgberht, who had done nothing to deserve it, was slain together with his companions. Three days later Aethelflaed sent an army into Wales and stormed Brecenanmere [at Llangorse lake near Brecon] and there captured the wife of the king and thirty-three other persons."…"
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Armand

Nice one Armand. Coming from a one time border between Mercian and Northumbrian (the river Aires in Yorkshire) and having lived not far from Derby for many years in the 80s and 90s, this period fascinates me. Much more light seems to be cast on the "Dark Ages" these days, and Aethelflaed is a character worthy of much more study.

Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

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Armand