After the Battle of Assandun in October 1016 in which Edmund Ironside was defeated but escaped, the two kings met on the island of Alney in the Severn near Deerhurst and agreed a division of England. Cnut received Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia; Edmund kept Wessex. Edmund died in November 1016 and Cnut was accepted as sole king. The treaty at Alney was a pragmatic recognition that neither king could destroy the other after a year of inconclusive fighting.
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