About: Battle of Aclea   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The Battle of Aclea was a battle of the Viking Age in 851 between the West Saxons and the Danish Vikings, believed to be located near or at Oakley, Bedfordshire or Water Oakley, Berkshire. The West Saxons were led by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex who responded to another Viking incursion. Little was known about this battle and most information on the battle came from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which recorded the battle in their timeline. The Battle of Aclea was a rare victory for Wessex but for 15 years, major assaults by Vikings were stopped.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Battle of Aclea
rdfs:comment
  • The Battle of Aclea was a battle of the Viking Age in 851 between the West Saxons and the Danish Vikings, believed to be located near or at Oakley, Bedfordshire or Water Oakley, Berkshire. The West Saxons were led by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex who responded to another Viking incursion. Little was known about this battle and most information on the battle came from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which recorded the battle in their timeline. The Battle of Aclea was a rare victory for Wessex but for 15 years, major assaults by Vikings were stopped.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • The Battle of Aclea was a battle of the Viking Age in 851 between the West Saxons and the Danish Vikings, believed to be located near or at Oakley, Bedfordshire or Water Oakley, Berkshire. The West Saxons were led by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex who responded to another Viking incursion. Little was known about this battle and most information on the battle came from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which recorded the battle in their timeline. "350 [Viking] ships came into the Thames and stormed Canterbury and London and put to flight Beorhtwulf, King of Mercia with his army, and then went south over the Thames to Surrey and King Aethelwulf and his son Aethelbald with the West Saxon army fought against them at Oak Field [Aclea], and there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to the present day, and there took the victory." The Battle of Aclea was a rare victory for Wessex but for 15 years, major assaults by Vikings were stopped.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software