Location: Wareham / Dorset

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref. Primary Person Short Description
Event Asser.VitAlfredi  49   The army of the pagans (Anonymi 79) left Cambridge and entered the fortification called Wareham.
Occupation Asser.VitAlfredi  49 Anonymi 83 Nun
Event ASC  877 ADEG, <878> B, 878 C   Here the here (Anonymi 940) came to Exeter from Wareham.
Event ASC  876 ADEF(OE and Lat.)G, <877> B, 877 C   The mounted here (Anonymi 939) stole away under cover of night from the fierd (Anonymi 903) to Exeter.
Event ASC  876 ADEG, <877> B, 877 C   Here the here (Anonymi 900) stole away from a fierd of West Saxons (Anonymi 903) into Wareham.
Event ASC  784 ADEG, <783/4> B, 783 C   The body [of Beorhtric 1] lay at Wareham.
Occupation ASC  877 ADEG, <878> B, 878 C Anonymi 940 Here
Event ASC (DEF)  980 DEF(OE and Lat.)   [DE: Here in this year] [F(OE): Dunstan 1 and] Ælfhere 10 [F(Lat.): with Dunstan 1] brought the body of the king [sc. Edward 12] from Wareham and carried it [DEF(Lat.): with great honour] to Shaftesbury.
Event ASC (DEF)  979 DEF(OE and Lat.)   He [sc. Edward 12] was buried at Wareham.
Event ASC (BC)  982 C   In this same year two abbesses among the people of Dorset (Anonymi 1595) passed away: Herelufu 1 at Shaftesbury and Wulfwynn 4 at Wareham.
Office ASC (BC)  981 C Wulfgar 28 held office of Bishop (Bishop in Wiltshire)
Office ASC (BC)  982 C Wulfwynn 4 held office of Abbess (Abbess at Wareham)
Event Æthelweard.Chron  iv.3 (p. 41)   The army (Anonymi 2507) made a common settlement with the western army (Anonymi 2510) near Wareham, which it had not done before.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.86.4-6   In Shaftesbury lay St Edward 12, grandson of Ælfgifu 3 by her son Edgar 11, who went to heaven after being killed for no good reason by his stepmother [Ælfthryth 8]. His first place of burial was Wareham, close to the sea not far from Corfe, and then translated to Shaftsbury. In after time, however, half of the body was taken to Leominster, half to Abingdon.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  v.217.3-6   Aldhelm 3 built a church in Dorset, near Wareham and Corfe Castle. It is now roofless and open to the sky, but miraculously no drop of rain ever falls inside of it.
RecordedNames TRW Non-royal charters/Spalding    Ælfric 155
Possession GDB  78v (Dorset 14:1) Horton 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 5 urban tenements in Wareham, Dorset (in 1086)
Possession GDB  78v (Dorset 14:1) Horton 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 5 urban tenements in Wareham, Dorset (in 1066)
Office EMC Coin  1992.0266 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Alfred 89 held office of Moneyer for Eadred 16
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1992.0266 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Alfred 89
Office EMC Coin  1992.0266 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Eadred 16 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1993.0202 (N 440 (Æthelstan EA, non-portrait)) Æthelstan 80
Office EMC Coin  1993.0202 (N 440 (Æthelstan EA, non-portrait)) Æthelstan 80 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1993.0202 (N 440 (Æthelstan EA, non-portrait)) Torhthelm 8
Office EMC Coin  1993.0202 (N 440 (Æthelstan EA, non-portrait)) Torhthelm 8 held office of Moneyer for Æthelstan 80