The Battle of Meretun (or Merton) between a West Saxon army led by King Æthelred and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great, and a Viking army took place on 22 March 871 at an unknown location in Wessex, probably in one of the modern counties of Dorset, Hampshire, or Wiltshire.
was succeeded by Alfred. The Battleof Basing can be dated because Bishop Heahmund of Sherborne died in the BattleofMeretun, and it is known that he died...
Heahmund of Sherborne died in the BattleofMeretun, and it is known that he died on 22 March 871. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the Battleof Basing...
Battle of Meretun (871) Campaign of Alfred the Great (871–899) Battleof Edington (878) Battleof Cynwit (878) Battleof Assandun (1016) Battleof Fulford...
accomplishments) member of Charlemagne's Twelve Peers. St. Heahmund (d. 871), Bishop of Sherborne, died at the BattleofMeretun under Aethelred I of Wessex against...
education college, as of 2009 the Merton campus of South Thames College BattleofMeretun or Morton, fought in 871 between the Saxon army of Wessex and the Danish...
The Battleof Stamford Bridge (Old English: Gefeoht æt Stanfordbrycge) took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, in England...
The Battleof Tettenhall (sometimes called the Battleof Wednesfield or Wōdnesfeld) took place, according to the chronicler Æthelweard, near Tettenhall...
Northumbrians defeated during the ensuing battle on 21 March 867. Symeon of Durham wrote: In those days, the nation of the Northumbrians had violently expelled...
Battleof Fulford was fought on the outskirts of the village of Fulford just south of York in England, on 20 September 1066, when King Harald III of Norway...
At the Battleof Edington, an army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum on a date between...
Naples. Cyneheard, brother of the late king Sigeberht, ambushes and kills his rival Cynewulf of Wessex, while he is at Meretun (now called Marten) with...
of men and many had not had the opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle. Consequently, he decided to select those that were the most prominent in...
four days after that; the Battleof Basing fourteen days after that; and the BattleofMeretun two months after that. One of the West Saxons slain in the...
The Battleof Cynwit or Countisbury Hill took place between West Saxons and Vikings in 878. The location of the fortress the battle is named for is not...
The Battleof Pinhoe took place between the Danes and the men of Devon and Somerset at Pinhoe, Devon. In 1001, Vikings laid siege to Exeter, but due to...
The Battleof Maldon took place on 11 August 991 AD near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready...
Army Battleof Ashdown – 871 – Great Heathen Army Battleof Basing – 871 – Great Heathen Army BattleofMeretun – 871 – Great Heathen Army Battleof Chippenham...
The Battleof Benfleet was an 894 battle between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons commanded by Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, the...
242472°W / 52.47588; -0.242472 The Battleof the Holme took place in East Anglia on 13 December 902 where the Anglo-Saxon men of Wessex and Kent fought against...
The Battleof Brunanburh was fought in 937 between Æthelstan, King of England, and an alliance of Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin; Constantine II, King...
The Battleof Buttington was fought in 893 between a Viking army and an alliance of Anglo-Saxons and Welsh. The annals for 893 reported that a large Viking...
The Battleof Stainmore was probably fought between the Earldom of Bernicia, led by Oswulf, and the forces of the last Norse king of Jórvík (York), Eric...
The Battleof Farnham was an armed conflict between the Anglo-Saxons, under the command of Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder, and the Norse Viking...
The Battleof Chippenham was a January 878 battle between a Viking army led by Guthrum and an Anglo-Saxon army led by Alfred the Great. The Vikings forced...
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