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Battle of Assandun

The Battle of Assandun reaches its climax as King Edmund Ironside's Anglo-Saxon forces clash fiercely with Cnut the Great's Viking army. The battlefield is chaotic, with heavy casualties on both sides

Year 1016
Date 10/18
Location Ashingdon, Essex, England
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
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Key Figures

King Edmund Ironside Cnut the Great Saxon Captain Viking Warrior

Causal neighbors · 684 linked moments

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Battle of Assandun
1016 · contemporaneous
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · same location
S
Sack of Lindisfarne
793 · same figure
M
Marriage of Cnut the Great to Emma of Normandy
1017 · same figure
V
Viking withdrawal from Ireland after Clontarf
1014 · same figure
B
Battle of Brunanburh
937 · same figure
S
Siege of Paris by Vikings
845 · same figure
C
Coronation of Cnut as King of England
1017 · same figure
D
Death of Sigurd the Stout
1014 · same figure
V
Viking raid on Jarrow
794 · same figure
S
Sack of Nantes
843 · same figure
V
Viking raid on Downpatrick monastery
837 · same figure
B
Battle of Clontarf
1014 · same figure
E
Expulsion of Vikings from Dublin
902 · same figure
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same figure
V
Viking Raid on Lindisfarne
793 · same figure
V
Viking Raid on Lindisfarne
793 · same figure
B
Battle of Brunanburh
937 · same figure
V
Viking raid on Lindisfarne
793 · same figure
B
Battle of Edington
878 · same figure
V
Viking Sack of Nantes
843 · same figure
C
Cnut's conquest of Norway
1028 · same figure
S
Siege of Paris (885-886)
885 · same figure
B
Battle of Maldon
991 · same figure
D
Death of Cnut the Great
1035 · same figure
Viking raid on Lindisfarne
Viking raid on Lindisfarne
793 · same figure
B
Battle of Assandun
1016 · contemporaneous
D
Death of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria
1016 · same era
S
Sweyn Forkbeard's Capture of London
1013 · same era
C
Coronation of Cnut the Great
1017 · same era
M
Marriage of Cnut the Great to Emma of Normandy
1017 · same era
D
Death of Edmund Ironside
1016 · same era
C
Coronation of Cnut the Great
1017 · precedes
M
Marriage of Cnut the Great to Emma of Normandy
1017 · precedes
D
Death of Edmund Ironside
1016 · precedes
D
Death of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria
1016 · follows