Anno moxloio Edwardus Agelredi quondam
regis Anglorum filius de Normannia ubi multis exulauerat
annis uenit Angliam, ⁊ a
fratre suo Hardecnuto rege honorifice susceptus in curia eius mansit.
Anno moxloiio rex Hard’, dum in celebri nuptiarum conuiuio in quo Osgotus
Clappa magne uir
potentie filiam suam Githam Danico ⁊ prepotenti uiro Touio Prudan
in loco qui dicitur Lamhythe mag
na cum leticia tradebat nuptui, letus sospes ⁊
hilaris cum sponsa predicta ⁊ quibusdam uiris staret
repente inter bibendum
miserabili casu ad terram corruit, ⁊ sic mutus permanens feria iiii, vi idus
Iunii
expirauit, ⁊ Wintonie iuxta patrem suum est tumulatus.
Anno moxloiiio Edwardus ab archiepiscopis Edsio Dorobernensi ⁊ Alfrico
Eboracensi aliisque, fere totius
Anglie episcopis ia
pa\s/che
iiio N’ April’ ungitur in regem Wintonie. Defuncto
Edmundo Dunelmensi episcopo
cui successit Ægelricus Siwardo administrante
comitatum Northimbrorum.
Anno moxloiiiio Alwordus Lundoniensis
episcopus obiit.
Anno moxlovo obiit Brithwaldus Wiltoniensis episcopus, cui successit
Hermannus, regis capellanus.
Anno moxlovio Magnus Noreganorum rex Sancti Olaui regis filius fugato
rege Danorum Swano
Danemarchiam sibi subegit. Osgotus Clappa expellitur
Anglia.
Anno moxloviio bellum fuit apud Wallundunas. Obiit Alwinus Wintoniensis
episcopus cui Stigandus
successit. Magnus rex Noreganorum cum Swano prelium
committens illum Danemarchia expulit,
⁊ in illa regnauit, ac non multo post
obiit.
Anno moxloviiio Swanus Danemarchiam recepit, ⁊ Haroldus Harfahgher Siwardi
regis
Noreganorum filius, ⁊ ex parte matris frater Sancti Olaui patruus scilicet
Magni regis Noregam repetiit ⁊ per
suos nuntios pacem cum rege Anglorum fecit.
Terre motus exstitit magnus, kal’ Mai, die1 Wi
gorne, Wic, Deorbeia, ⁊ multis aliis locis.
Mortalitas hominum ⁊ animalium multa
secuta est ⁊ ignis aereus2 uulgo dictus siluaticus quibusdam in locis
uillas ⁊ segetes multas
cremauit.
Anno moxloixo Leo factus est papa, cusxlusvus. Iste \est/ Leo qui3 nouum cantum de
Sancto Gregorio
fecit. Henricus imperator innumerabilem congregauit excercitum
contra Baldwinum Flandrensium,
comitem eo quod apud Neomagum palatium suum
combussisset, pulcherrimum atque fregisset. In qua ex
peditione fuit Leo papa ⁊ de
multis terris nobiles quam plurimi. Swanus etiam rex Danorum cum
sua classe illi
affuit, ⁊ fidelitatem imperatori iurauit. Compulsus tandem comes Bald’, pa
cem cum
imperatore fecit. Leo papa dedicauit ecclesiam Sancti Remigii Remis ubi ⁊ concilium
postea
tenuit.
Anno molo Macbeth rex Scot’ Rome argentum spargendo distribuit. Obiit Edsius
Dorober
nensis archiepiscopus, cui Rodbertus Lundon’ episcopus genere Normannus
successit. Hermannus Wilton’
episcopus, Aldredus Wigornensis episcopus Romam
ierunt.
Anno moloio Alfricus, qui ⁊ Putta Eboracensis archiepiscopus, apud
Sudwelle obiit, ⁊ apud Me
deshamstede \id est Burch/
sepelitur, cui Kinsius regis capellanus successit. Rex Edwardus absoluit Anglos
a
graui uectigali id est xxxm librarum, xxxo ⁊ viiio anno ex quo pater suus
rex Ægelredus primitus
Danicis id solidariis solui mandarat. Orta seditione inter
regem, ⁊ comitem Godwinum
pro eo quod tradere noluit morti sororium suum comitem
Bononiensem, cuius milites stolide hos
pitia querentes apud Douer, ubi applicuerat
plures e ciuibus peremerunt, qui ⁊ ipse ad castrum
In the 1041st year Eadweard, son of
Æethelred formerly king of the English, came to England from Normandy where he had been
an exile for many years and, received honourably by his brother King Harthacnut,
remained at his court.
In the 1042nd year King
Harthacnut—at a well attended wedding-feast in which Osgot Clappa, a man of great power,
was handing over with great joy his daughter Githa to the bridegroom (a Dane and a very
powerful man, Toui Prudan) in the place which is called Lambeth—, while he was standing,
cheerful, safe and merry with the aforesaid bride and certain men, by pitiful chance,
collapsed onto the ground in the course of drinking, and so, staying dumb for 4 days,
expired on 8 June, and was entombed at Winchester beside his father.
In the
1043rd year Eadweard was anointed as king at Winchester
by Archbishops Eadsige of Canterbury and Ælfric of York and other bishops from nearly
the whole of England on the first day of Easter, 3 April. On the death of Eadmund bishop
of Durham—Æthelric succeeded him—Siward administered the earldom of the Northumbrians.
In the 1044th year Ælfweard bishop of London died.
In the 1045th year Brihtwold bishop of Wiltshire1 died; Hereman, the king’s chaplain, succeeded him.
In the 1046th year Magnús, king of the Norwegians, son of St
Óláfr the king, subdued Denmark to himself after the flight of Svein, king of the Danes.
Osgot Clappa is expelled from England.
In the 1047th
year there was a battle at Val-ès-Dunes. Ælfwine bishop of Winchester died; Stigand
succeeded him. Magnús, king of the Norwegians, joining battle with Svein, expelled him
from Denmark, and ruled in that country, and died not long afterwards.
In the
1048th year Svein regained Denmark, and Haraldr Harðraði,
son of Sigurð king of the Norwegians, and on his mother’s side, brother of St Óláfr—that
is, uncle of King Magnús—returned to Norway and through his ambassadors made peace with
the king of the English. There was a notable earthquake during [Sun]day on 1 May at
Worcester, Wic,2 Derby and many
other places. A great mortality of men and animals followed, an air-borne fire, commonly
called wildfire, burnt many settlements and cornfields in some places.
In the
1049th year Leo was made pope—the 145th. This \is/the Leo who made a new
hymn about St Gregory. The emperor Henry gathered an innumerable host against Baldwin
count of Flanders, because he had burnt and wrecked his most beautiful palace at
Nijmegen. Pope Leo was in that expedition as well as the greatest nobles from many
lands. Moreover, Svein king of the Danes was present at that expedition with his fleet,
and swore fealty to the emperor. At length Count Baldwin was forced to make peace with
the emperor. Pope Leo dedicated the church of St Remigius at Rheims, and there he
afterwards held a council.
In the 1050th year Mac
Bethad king of Scots at Rome distributed silver by throwing it here and there. Eadsige
archbishop of Canterbury died; Robert bishop of London, a Norman by birth, succeeded
him. Hereman bishop of Wiltshire and Ealdred bishop of Worcester went to Rome.
In
the 1051st year Ælfric, also known as Putta, archbishop of
York, died at Southwell, and is buried at Medeshamstede
\that is, Peterborough/; Cynesige, the king’s chaplain, succeeded
him. King Eadweard freed the English from a heavy tax—that is 30 thousand pounds—in the
38th year after his father had originally ordered it to
be paid to the Danish mercenaries. A conflict arose between the king and Earl Godwine,
for this reason: because the king refused to put to death the count of Boulogne, his
brother-in-law, whose soldiers, rudely seeking lodgings at Dover, where he had arrived,
had killed many of the inhabitants; and he himself with his men had taken refuge in