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Tango01

10 Sep 2025 3:11 p.m. PST

… refight of this battle)

"We moved back to the Welsh borders for our next battle. The Anglo Saxon chronicles have a fairly brief entry identifying that Llwellyn ap Gryffydd brought an army across the Welsh borders to raid. This force sacked Leominster in 1052 but was then attacked by an Anglo Saxon force led by Ranulph Earl of Herefordshire, supported by ‘mercenary' French troops from a nearby castle. The welsh often employed Dublin Vikings in his raiding forces. Almost nothing seems to be really known about the battle although apparently there is a marker in the town of Leominster indicating the battle took place near to a bridge possibly over the town defensive ditch ?…"

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