The Great Heathen Army sacked Peterborough (Medeshampstead) in 870 as it moved through Mercia. The monastery, one of the greatest in England, was burned and its monks killed. Hugo Candidus the twelfth-century historian of Peterborough describes the attack in detail. The sack was part of the systematic destruction of English monastic culture accompanying the Viking conquest of the Midlands.
All monks reportedly killed; monastery burned
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