The Great Heathen Army, fresh from destroying East Anglia and killing King Edmund, sacked Peterborough (then Medeshamstede). The entire monastic community was killed and the ancient monastery burned. The site was one of the oldest and richest monasteries in England. It was not re-established for over a century. The sack was part of the systematic destruction of English monastic culture by the Great Army.
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