The martyrdom of King Edmund
869 · Event
The King of East Anglia, defeated by the Great Heathen Army, dies at Viking hands — in the later legend, refusing to renounce Christ or rule as a Viking puppet, he is bound to a tree, shot full of arrows and beheaded. His cult makes him England's first patron saint; his kingdom becomes the second to vanish into the Danelaw.
On these timelines: Alfred and the Vikings, England, Christianity, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, The Viking Age
More from Alfred and the Vikings
- Battle of Edington (878)
- Great Heathen Army lands (865)
- Alfred in the marshes of Athelney (878)
- Twelfth Night attack at Chippenham (878)
- Treaty of Wedmore / Danelaw (878)
- Alfred takes London (886)
- Danelaw established (886)
- York falls to the Great Army (866)
Around 869
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Viking Age (793)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)