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Alfred's strategies & tactics 1 It is furthermore argued that the document known as Alfred and Guthrum's Treaty, in which the limit of Guthrum's kingdom of East Anglia is defined by a boundary drawn to the east of London, was a contemporary record of the agreement reached between Alfred and Guthrum at this time. If, as Dumville argues, the terms of the Treaty implied that Guthrum ceded the whole of Essex to Alfred because it had always been part of the latter's kingdom, then it would be expected that the boundary in the Treaty would have been more-or-less coterminous with the land boundaries of Essex. The basic premise underlying this scenario is that Alfred negotiated the Treaty in late 879 from a position of such strength that Guthrum and his army, who it can be inferred still harboured hostile intentions towards Wessex, had no choice but to accept his terms. www.artisan-webdesign.co.uk /alfred/alfred1.htm

Al Notes 891 Guthrum died and the treaty with Alfred was considered to be over, yet his son, Guthrum II honoured it. 886 Daneslaw established in a peace treaty between Alfred and Guthrum. Alfred was victorious using the shields as the Roman's did, and spared Guthrum's life again, splitting England in two, Saxons to the south, Vikings to the north. www.packrat-pro.com /aln.htm

TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With G Guthrum was defeated by Alfred at Exeter and signed a peace treaty, but Guthrum attacked Wessex and drove Alfred from power in 878. Alfred rebuilt his army and defeated Guthrum at the Battle of Edington. Alfred converted Guthrum to Christianity and gave him land as part of Danelaw. www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprg.htm

Chippenham, Athelney, Edington and Wedmore Guthrum and Alfred then reached an agreement to let the remaining Vikings go provided that Guthrum and his key commanders were baptised, and that the Vikings left Wessex. Following defeat at Edington, the Vikings under Guthrum retreated to Chippenham where they had fortified the island on which the current Church now stands. Alfred and his retinue were celebrating Christmas at Chippenham in 877 when they surprised by Guthrum and his Viking army. www.manaraefan.ndo.co.uk /timeline/Raven_Chippenham.htm

Guthrum Definition / Guthrum Research The term is additionally used to describe the set of legal terms and definitions established between Alfred the Great and the viking Guthrum which were set down in agreements such as the Treaty of Wedmore which established a modus vivendi between the Anglo-Saxons and the viking in-comers.... Later, in the Battle of Ethandun (Edington), King Alfred the Great of Wessex defeats the Danes of the Danelaw under Guthrum. Ethandun) in 878 AD, in which Alfred the Great defeated the viking forces of the Dane, Guthrum.... www.elresearch.com /Guthrum   (499 words)

Alfred's strategies & tactics - the Burghal Hidage, a reassessment. The argument that the frontier recorded in Alfred and Guthrum's Treaty was that negotiated immediately prior to the retreat of Guthrum's army from Cirencester to eastern England in late 879 is argued in the earlier part of this paper. It is argued that it would have played a vital part in the reinforcement of the northern part of the boundary agreed between Alfred and Guthrum to the east and north of London, behind (to the east of) which the latter's army was arguably forced to retreat at that time. It was suggested that, as a result of his victory at Edington against Guthrum's army in May 878, Alfred was able to construct a system of fortresses all around greater Wessex (which at the time included a part of eastern Mercia) in a crash building programme of unprecedented scale. www.artisan-webdesign.co.uk /alfred/alfred2.htm   (499 words)

Treaty of Wedmore After the defeat of the Viking Guthrum by Alfred the Great at the battle of Eddington in May, a treaty was signed at Wedmore in 878 A.D. This allowed Guthrum to leave on the understanding that he did not return. The signing of the treaty secured Wessex as the predominant kingdom. The treaty made provision for the Vikings by sectioning England to allow the Danes to have there own land and governance. www.battle1066.com /g269.shtml   (150 words)

Danelaw The term is also used to describe the set of legal terms and definitions established between Alfred the Great and the viking Guthrum which were set down in agreements such as the Treaty of Wedmore which established a modus vivendi between the Anglo-Saxons and the viking in-comers. The Danelaw was formally established as a result of the Treaty of Wedmore in the late 9th century, after Alfred the Great had defeated the Viking Guthrum at the Battle of Edington. The reason for these wave of immigrations are complex and bound to the political situation in Scandinavia at that time; moreover, they occurred at a time when the viking forces were also establishing their presence in the Hebrides, in the Orkneys, the Faroe Islands, in Iceland, in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (see Kievan Rus'). danelaw.ask.dyndns.dk   (636 words)

King Alfred the Great of England (849-901) Another treaty with Guthrum in 886 marked off the Danelaw E and N of the Thames, the Lea, the Ouse, and Watling Street, leaving the south and west of England to Alfred; established the relative indemnities of Englishmen and Danes in law; and attempted to prevent border raids. He then dictated the Peace of Chippenham (or Wedmore) by which Guthrum, the Danish leader, accepted baptism and probably agreed to seperate England into English and Danish "spheres of influence." The Danes moved into East Anglia and E Mercia, and Alfred established his overlordship in W Mercia. By the Peace of Wedmore 878 the Danish leader Guthrum (died 890) agreed to withdraw from Wessex and from Mercia west of Watling Street. share.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/8882/Notes/00116.htm   (2001 words)

guthrum By 878 he stood at the brink of conquering what was left of Wessex but he was decisively defeated by Alfred in the Battle of Edington, after which he was forced to sign the Treaty of Wedmore dividing England between Alfred and himself. He waged a long war against Wessex and its kings, most notably King Alfred the Great. www.yourencyclopedia.net /Guthrum.html   (130 words)

The Danelaw of England (Historiography) Having come from word of Guthrum's victory the year before, they would sail to raid the Continent after wintering at Fulham, thanks to the changes in fortunes in England, with Guthrum and Alfred now at peace. In 886, Alfred and Guthrum negotiated a treaty between Wessex and East Anglia, to help prevent quarrels between the Danes and the Saxons that could lead to war. Slowly reconquered by the recovered kingdom of Wessex under the line of Alfred, this area would see a revival as an independent political body with the weakness of Aethelred the Unready, and later again with the ascendancy of Cnut the Great. www.cusd.claremont.edu /~ccandy/methods.html   (4564 words)

GUTHRUM (GODRUM) - LoveToKnow Article on GUTHRUM (GODRUM) There is a treaty known as the peace of Alfred and Guthrum. He was probably engaged in the campaigns of the next three years, and after Alfreds victory at Edington in 878, Guthrum met the king at Aller in Somersetshire and was baptized there under the name of ~thelstan. Guthrum is perhaps to be identified with Gormr (= Guthrum) hinn heimski or hinn riki of the Scandinavian sagas, the fosterfather of Hbrtiaknutr, the father of Gorm the old. 39.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUTHRUM_GODRUM_.htm   (4564 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anglo-Saxon Church The final victory of Alfred over the Danes, the treaty with Guthrum their leader at Wedmore, and the consequent reception of Christianity by the invaders, did much to restore the Church to happier conditions. In the joint code of laws published by Alfred and Guthrum, apostasy was declared a crime, negligent priests were to be fined, the payment of Peter's-Pence was commanded, and the practice of heathen rites was forbidden. The union between secular this time, and indeed throughout the whole of the Anglo-Saxon period, was very close, and some of the great national councils seemed almost to have the character of Church synods. www.newadvent.org /cathen/01505a.htm   (4564 words)

mississippi state university distance learning . mississippi state university distance learning King Guthrum was converted to Christianity with Alfred as godfather and many of the Danes returned to East Anglia where they settled as farmers. In 886, Alfred negotiated a partition treaty with the Danes, in which a frontier was demarcated along the Roman Watling Street mississippi state university distance learning in the New Minster which he had had completed at Winchester. xxl-searching.com /distance-learning/mississippi-state-university-distance-learning.html   (4564 words)

The Lives of Ss. Edmund and Fremund: Introduction Guthrum was acknowledged by Alfred as the Danish king of East Anglia in 878, when Guthrum converted to Christianity as part of the treaty with King Alfred (who stood at the baptism as his godfather). The Danes ruled East Anglia for 38 years, from 878 to 917, when the region was reconquered by the Anglo-Saxons under King Edward of Wessex. In 879 they returned again, this time to settle and rule the region. www.ualberta.ca /~sreimer/edmund/intro/vikings.htm   (4564 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anglo-Saxon Church The final victory of Alfred over the Danes, the treaty with Guthrum their leader at Wedmore, and the consequent reception of Christianity by the invaders, did much to restore the Church to happier conditions. In the joint code of laws published by Alfred and Guthrum, apostasy was declared a crime, negligent priests were to be fined, the payment of Peter's-Pence was commanded, and the practice of heathen rites was forbidden. King Alfred the Great strove hard to put things on a better footing, and, speaking generally, the devotion of secular rulers towards the papacy and the Church was never more conspicuous than at this period. www.newadvent.org /cathen/01505a.htm   (5846 words)

King Alfred the Great The treaty between Alfred and Guthrum, king of the Vikings of East Anglia. King Alfred the Great (849, ruled 871-899) was one of the best kings ever to rule mankind. Keynes and Lapidge say that the source of this quotation is unknown. www.mirror.org /ken.roberts/king.alfred.html   (907 words)

GUTHRUM (GODRUM) - LoveToKnow Article on GUTHRUM (GODRUM) There is a treaty known as the peace of Alfred and Guthrum. He was probably engaged in the campaigns of the next three years, and after Alfreds victory at Edington in 878, Guthrum met the king at Aller in Somersetshire and was baptized there under the name of ~thelstan. Guthrum is perhaps to be identified with Gormr (= Guthrum) hinn heimski or hinn riki of the Scandinavian sagas, the fosterfather of Hbrtiaknutr, the father of Gorm the old. www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUTHRUM_GODRUM_.htm   (186 words)

"Fiery dragons in the air flying" The Danes also accepted Christianity, and Guthrum, the Danish leader who had signed the treaty with Alfred, was baptized. The Treaty did not expell the Danes, but rather defined the limits of their rule: the northeast of England, north of a boundary line running from Chester in the northwest, to London. In Old English, the "sh" sound was spelled sc; in Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, the same spelling signified the pronunciation sk. ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/loe.html   (789 words)

London Alfred occupied London with his troops in 886 in retaliation for Guthrum breaking the peace established by the Treaty of Wedmore. It was around 886 that Alfred moved London to within the safety of the old walls of the Roman city. www.manaraefan.ndo.co.uk /timeline/Raven_London.htm   (183 words)

channel4.com - Monarchy - Battle of Edington - text only By the terms of the treaty of Wedmore, Guthrum agreed to withdraw to territory already under Danish control – that is, to the north of the Roman Watling Street. Alfred realised that the best he could hope for was to consolidate his current possessions. Alfred followed up the victory with measures to strengthen the area under his control by building burhs, or fortified towns. www.channel4.com /history/microsites/M/monarchy/battles/edington_t.html   (495 words)

Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History By the Treaty of Wedmore, the Viking leader, Guthrum, was allowed to keep the northern half of England, called the Danelaw, but had to recognise Alfred as his overlord. By 886 Alfred (849-899) had also recaptured London from the Danes and was recognized as king of all England. The Vikings could live in the Danelaw on condition that they became Christians. www.camelotintl.com /world/02alfredgreat.html   (247 words)

Alfred. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Alfred captured (886) London and concluded another treaty with Guthrum that marked off the Danelaw E and N of the Thames, Lea, and Ouse rivers, and Watling Street, leaving the south and west of England to Alfred. Alfred liberally interpolated his own thoughts into his writings, and the Orosius is particularly interesting for the addition of accounts of voyages made by the Norse explorers Ohthere and Wulfstan. Alfred’s greatest achievements, however, were the revival of learning and the establishment of Old English literary prose. www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alfred.html   (247 words)

King Alfred the Great The treaty between Alfred and Guthrum, king of the Vikings of East Anglia. An article by Alfred Smyth, "Unmasking Alfred's false biographer", in British Archaeology, no 7, September 1995, claims that Asser's "Life of King Alfred" is a forgery. Does anyone have an online photograph of the statue of King Alfred which is located in Winchester? www.mirror.org /people/ken.roberts/king.alfred.html   (247 words)

BBC - History - King Alfred (849 - 899) By 886, Alfred had freed London from Danish occupation and a treaty was made with Guthrum and the East Anglians. The Danes made peace and Guthrum, their king, was baptised with Alfred as his sponsor. England was divided, with the east (between the Rivers Thames and Tees) declared to be Danish territory - later known as the 'Danelaw'- where English and Danes were treated as equals by law. www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/alfred_king.shtml   (247 words)

Glimpses bulletin #124: Alfred the Great Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex The first item in the peace treaty between Alfred and Guthrum agreed to "love one God and zealously renounce all heathen practices." Fines were established for honoring a pagan religion or not keeping the Sabbath laws. History of Christianity is a survey course designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of some of the pivotal events in the spread Christianity and sketches of great Christian figures who have significantly affected Christian history thereby shaping the history of the world. He stood godfather to Guthrum; he raised him from the font; he entertained him for twelve days; he presented him and his warriors with costly gifts; he called him his son. www.gospelcom.net /chi/GLIMPSEF/Glimpses/glmps124.shtml   (247 words)

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