Aethelfrith crushed a combined Welsh force and slaughtered up to 1,200 monks of Bangor who had come to pray for victory. Bede recorded this massacre with approval as punishment for the Welsh church's refusal to cooperate with the Roman mission. The battle drove a permanent wedge between the Welsh of Wales and the "Welsh" (Britons) of the north — the Cumbrians and Strathclyde Welsh.
Selyf ap Cynan killed; c.1,200 monks massacred
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