![]() ![]() The story, although preserved only in a late Repulsed by the great army which she assembled in theĬity. Hingamund, were granted land in Wirral by ÆthelflædĪnd her husband Æthelred but soon afterwards castĬovetous eyes on the wealth of Chester, only to be Hiberno-Norse community in Wirral after its expulsion from Dublin in 902. 12) Theīackground to that event was the establishment of a Ruler of Mercia, King Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd. Only in 907 with the refortification of the site by the The history of medieval Chester can be said to begin The 10th-century refortification and reoccupation Therefore, the city was presumably a place of some 890 Chester is the most likely site of a mint known The remains of a small sunken-featured hut, a lateĩth-century brooch, and sherds of a Carolingian jar Particular, a site at Lower Bridge Street has yielded The area south of the legionaryįortress was occupied by the late 9th century in ![]() 9) InĪny case, such desertion as there was can have been Linked Scandinavian kingdoms of Dublin and York. It did near a direct route between the already closely Growing economic and strategic importance, lying as Have been prompted by an awareness of the city's Raid, which culminated in the Danes' occupying theĬity and being besieged there for two days while theĮnglish ravaged the surrounding districts, may well 7) Although that description has led to theĪssumption that the site was waste from the 7th to theĮarly 10th century, (fn. In 893 Vikings raided Chester, then 'a deserted city 'mound' or 'hill', may indicate an early aristocratic Old English personal name and Old English hlaw, ![]() Henwald's Lowe becameĬommon land, and its name, a combination of an The Gorse Stacks), also extramural and just north-east Occupation is the place-name Henwald's Lowe (later One other possible indication of early Anglo-Saxon May show that settlement had moved away from the Important constituent of the population its location 5) The church was presumably a prominentīuilding, and its clergy and their households an Werburgh's, all tend to confirm itsĪntiquity. The church's extramural site, its closeĪssociation with the Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield,Īnd the burial rights which it shared with the otherĮarly minster, St. In the late 7th century may therefore have something John's, was founded by the Mercian king Æthelred Mercian domination, and that a 12th-century tradition that one of the city's two early minsters, St. Victory, Chester and its environs soon passed under All thatĬan safely be said is that, despite the Northumbrian 4) AfterĦ16 even such exiguous evidence is lacking. High-status sub-Roman sites in western Britain. The only material traces of the period from ChesterĪre a few sherds of amphorae dating perhaps from theĥth or 6th century and found within the legionaryįortress, they are similar in form to vessels from other Monks were allegedly slaughtered by the Northumbrians at the battle of Chester as they prayed for a Scene of a synod of the British Church shortly after 600,Īnd just to the south there seems to have been an early 2) Under their rule, too, the area wasĮcclesiastically important. North Wales, and hence likely to have made use of Lands to the south, in Shropshire, were in the hands of aĭifferent dynasty suggests that the Cadelling whoįought at Chester were confined to Cheshire and Royal dynasty of the Cadelling, whose representatives Powys and was perhaps the seat of a branch of the In territory associated with the British kingdom of ![]() By the time of the Northumbrian king Æthelfrith's victory over the British in 616, Chester was The legionary fortress had acquired an increasingly significant civilian role in the last century of its existence, and may have remained the focus of some kind of territorial unit. 1) Nevertheless, despite the silence of the documentary sources, the site's enduring importance suggests that some form of occupation may have continued after the Roman army left. He said nothing about later activity there. EARLY MEDIEVAL CHESTER 400-1230 Sub-roman and early english chesterĪlthough in the early 8th century Bede called ChesterĪ city ( civitas) and clearly knew of it as a Roman place, ![]()
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