St Brice's Day massacre - Wikipedia
The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes within England on 13 November 1002, on the order of King Æthelred the Unready of England.
The St Brice’s Day Massacre - Historic UK
The St Brice’s Day massacre is a little known event in English History. The crowning moment in a reign that earned King Aethelred the nickname Aethelred the Unready (or ill advised), it took place on 13th November 1002 and resulted in widespread violence, upheaval and invasion.
The St Brice’s Day Massacre - Museum of Oxford
The St Brice’s Day Massacre renewed the Danes’ determination to invade England, and in AD 1003, just one year after the massacre, King Sweyn of Denmark began his assault against Anglo-Saxon England.
The St Brice’s Day Massacre - History Today
In 991 Ealdorman Brihtnoth was killed at the famous battle of Maldon in Essex by a Viking host under Olaf Tryggvason, a Norwegian who returned to plunder the north-east in 993. The next year, he and Swein Forkbeard, the Danish king, attacked London together unsuccessfully.
The St Brice’s Day Massacre - History Today
Nov 11, 2024 · When paying off the Vikings failed to yield lasting peace, on 13 November 1002 king Æthelred ordered the slaughter of England’s Danes instead. St Brice’s Day Massacre, from Cassell’s Illustrated History of England, 1890. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo. The …
Features - Vengeance on the Vikings - Archaeology Magazine
Æthelred’s order led to what is known as the St. Brice’s Day Massacre, named for the saint’s feast day on which it fell. The event has long been cloaked in mystery and misinformation.
How a Heinous Act of Genocide Doomed Aethelred the ... - History …
Nov 2, 2018 · Thanks in no small part to the St Brice’s Day massacre, the Danes had won. Though Saxon rule was briefly restored after Cnut’s death, Aethelred’s legacy was a bitter one. The heinous act of genocide had, far from solving his problems, doomed his kingdom.
Saint Brice’s Day massacre | English history [1002] | Britannica
…the Danes in England on St. Brice’s Day, 1002, called for vengeance by Sweyn and, from 1009 to 1012, by a famous Viking, Thorkell the Tall. In 1013 the English, worn out by continuous warfare and heavy tributes to buy off the invaders, accepted Sweyn as king. Ethelred, his wife…
Remembering the St Brice's Day Massacre | St John's College, …
On 13 November, St John's marks the anniversary of the St Brice's Day Massacre of 1002, when King Aethelred II ordered the execution of all Danes living in England.
The St. Brice's Day Massacre: Then and Now - Yale University Press
Nov 11, 2016 · Known to modern historians as the St. Brice’s Day Massacre, this seems to encapsulate all that was wrong with Æthelred’s regime: it reveals the king not only as ill-prepared for the viking attacks of the period and ill-advised in his response, but also as cruel and vindictive.