On Alfred death in October 899, his nephew Aethelwold immediately seized Wimborne (where his father Aethelred I was buried) and Christchurch, claiming the kingdom. Edward the Elder besieged Wimborne but Aethelwold slipped away by night and fled to Northumbria where the Danes accepted him as king. This challenge to Edward succession set up the crisis that culminated at the Battle of the Holme in 902.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Dorset