Danes

The discovery of King Alfred’s pelvic bone….

Jul 17, 2024

anniversaries, battles, genealogy, Science

Alfred, Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, Battle of Ashdown, Blowing Stone, Danes, Edward the Elder, House of Wessex, Michael Wood, Neil Oliver, White Horse Hill, Winchester, Winchester Museum

I can’t say that I am very well up on Alfred the Great. The closest I’ve come to his “history” is the Blowing Stone Blowing Stone on the hill at Kingston Lisle. The sound it makes can be heard over a long distance, and according to a legend, in 871AD, when the Danish army approached…
Warwick Castle – England’s Finest Medieval Castle

Nov 27, 2017

anniversaries, buildings

Aethelflaed, Alfred the Great, castles, Danes, Edward of Warwick, Edward VII, Fosse Way, Guy’s tower, Henry de Beaumont, Mercia, Merlin Entertainments, Norman conquest, photographs, Richard of Warwick, Warwick Castle, William I

Warwick Castle Portcullis Francis Frith Photo of the portcullis 1901 The mound as viewed from the portcullis Old bridge Warwick Castle The moat Warwick Castle. Old staircase in Warwick Castle 14th century Guys Tower For more photos and an interesting article from ‘Britain and Britishness’ about Warwick Castle please see this link . Much of…
Edmund Ironside

Apr 23, 2016

battles

Anglo-Saxons, anniversaries, Assandun, Cnut, Danes, Donald Bain, Eadric Streona, Edgar the Atheling, Edmund Ironside, Ethelred II, Malcolm III, Margaret of Wessex, Richard III, Shakespeare, St. Edward the Confessor, Sveyn Forkbeard

Edmund II (Ironside) is a curiosity among English Kings. He reigned for barely seven months, succeeding his father Ethelred II (Unraed) on St. George’s Day 1016 but dying “in suspicious circumstances” on St. Andrew’s Day the same year. He was the half-brother of Edward the Confessor and grandfather of Edgar the Atheling, thus the ancestor…

Danes

The discovery of King Alfred’s pelvic bone….

Warwick Castle – England’s Finest Medieval Castle

Edmund Ironside