Peter Nicolai Arbo England 5th January 1066 , The English king Edward the confessor and then earl Harold Godwinson was proclaimed king at Westminster Abbey the day after the 6th. Edward the confessor had promised both Harold and William "Bastard" of Normandy the seat of the throne before he died. Both men were distant relatives to the childless Edward the confessor. When William heard of it he quickly raised an army. Harald Hardrada also claimed the English throne and he was faster than William the bastard and on 8th September,1066 240-300 Viking ships landed on the beaches of Scarborough and began an attempt to gain the English throne. 20th September,1066 Battle of Fulford : Harald Hardrada defeated the English earls Edwin and Walther. 2 days later Harald Hardrada attacked and conquered York. 24th September,1066 Harold Godwinson arrived after marching from London. 25th September,1066 Battle of Stamford bridge Battle of Stamford bridge Harald...
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| Arab coins from Viking treasure hoard |
With Elsloo as main base vikings plunder and pillage : Maastricht, Liege, Maines,Koblenz,Cologne and stavelot and Prum. Vikings moved east and entered Aachen, where they burned down emperor castle and they used the Maria church as stable for their horses. Vikings did not stop they moved down to the Rhine area, where they extorted contributions from Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz.
They marched through the Mosel valley and burned Trier down to the ground. Theses areas was previous free from viking raids and the terrified population is shocked and helpless against the viking raids. In the summer Charles the fat attacked outside Elsloo ,the siege of Asselt began but the siege was not successful. Charles the fat paid Sigfred and Godfrid the sea king 2500 Lbs gold and silver, Gotfrid married Gisela the daughter of Lothair 2 and was baptized.
Charles the fat also had to let Roric`s old Frisian area be ruled by Gotfrid, which made the vikings in control of a legal base for further raids. Sigfred sent his vikings into West Francia and the area between the rivers Oise and Somme and Aisne was looted merciless, the army camped in Amiens.
The invasion at the Laon region failed an attempt to take it but ransacked the area as well as the district of Villette Saint Vincent, destroying the churches and abbeys : Saint Jean du Bourg and Saint Hilaire Saint Vincent.
One of the authors of Annales Bertiniani Hincmar of Rheims died
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In the east Oleg united Novgorod and Kiev.
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