Battles of the Dark Ages by Marren Peter

Author:Marren, Peter [Marren, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Battles of the Dark Ages
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2006-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Sketchmap of battlefield of Ellandun (after Spicer, 2001)

There is a small exhibition, including archaeological finds, in the cafe by the car-park. But there is as yet no mention of Ecgbert or the Battle of Ellandun.

What makes a battle decisive is what happens afterwards. After Ellandun, Ecgbert sent an army under his son Aethelwulf into Kent to recover the king’s patrimony there. Beornwulf’s client-king, Baldred, was sent packing across the Thames. Not only Kent, but also the failing kingdoms of Sussex and Essex submitted to Ecgbert ‘because they had been wrongly forced away from his kinsmen’. By the end of the year, Beornwulf had been killed by the East Anglians, who, seeing the way the tide was running, also ‘turned to king Ecgbert as their protector and guardian against fear of Mercian aggression’. In 829, Ecgbert conquered Mercia itself ‘and all that was south of the Humber’. He took his army as far as the River Dore near Sheffield, where the Northumbrians ‘offered him submission and peace; thereupon they parted’. In the following year, Ecgbert’s all-conquering army of Wessex marched into Wales, and that too ‘he reduced to humble submission’.

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