Assandun (probably Ashingdon in Essex) was the decisive battle of the Danish conquest of England. Cnut and Edmund Ironside had fought five campaigns in 1016; at Assandun, the English army broke when Eadric Streona — Edmund\'s treacherous brother-in-law — fled with his forces at a critical moment. Edmund survived and a peace was arranged dividing England, but Edmund died within weeks (possibly murdered) leaving Cnut king of all England. The battle ended the last serious English resistance to Danish rule.
Major English losses including several ealdormen; precise numbers unknown
Danish: Cnut with his fleet army. English: Edmund Ironside with the English national levy, weakened by Eadric\'s defection
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