Battle of Gafulford, 825
Who Fought
West Saxons versus men of Cornish Dumnonia
History & Significance
Year 825 (DCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
A group of Persio-Assyrian adherents of the Church of the East, under the leadership of two Persian bishops Prod (or Proth, also known as Aphroth) and Sappor (also known as Sabrisho), reach Kerala, India and reside in Quilon.
August - This year, on the first day of Chingam month, Kerala’s Kollam Era ( Malayalam Era/Calendar, also known as Kollavarsham) commences.
Emperor Louis the Pious begins a military campaign against the Wends and Sorbs. Duke Tunglo surrenders his son as hostage, and submits to Frankish rule (approximate date).
Grímur Kamban becomes the first man to set foot in the Faroe Islands, and settles down in Funningur, on the northwest coast of Eysturoy (beginning the Norwegian Viking era on the islands).
Battle of Ellandun: King Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia near Swindon. The battle marks the end of the Mercian domination of southern England. The kingdoms of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex submit to Wessex, and East Anglia acknowledges Egbert as overlord (bretwalda).
King Hywel ap Rhodri of Gwynedd dies after an 11-year reign. The kingdom is seized by his grand-nephew, Merfyn Frych of Man.
Battle of Gafulford: The men of Cornish Dumnonia clash with the West Saxons at modern-day Camelford (approximate date).
Borobudur, a Mahayana Buddhist Temple, is completed in Central Java (modern Indonesia).
Song Ruozhao, Chinese scholar, lady-in-waiting and poet (b. 770)
The ground they fought on
The site of Battle of Gafulford, 825 lies on Holsworthy Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.
The Battle of Gafulford in 825 brought the men of Cornish Dumnonia into direct conflict with the West Saxons near modern-day Camelford, forming part of Ecgberht of Wessex's sustained campaigns against the Britons of Cornwall, which had begun at least as early as his devastation of Cornish territory in 815.
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