Edward the Elder919
Unites Mercia & Wessex & creates an England with English & Danes as joint subjects
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Unites Mercia & Wessex & creates an England with English & Danes as joint subjects
The chroniclers record that all England "accepted Edward as Lord". Constantine II of Scotland, and the King's of Strathclyde, York, and Northumbria acknowledge Edward the Elder as their overlord
A meeting at Eamont Bridge is sealed by an agreement that Constantine, Eogan of Strathclyde, Hywel Dda, and Ealdred would "renounce all idolatry": that is, they would not ally with the Vikings
In less than a decade, the Kingdom of the English had become by far the greatest power in the British Isles, perhaps stretching as far north as the Firth of Forth. Captures Northumbria, becomes the 1st King of all of England
Rulers in Great Britain seem to have submitted to Athelstan at Bamburgh: "first Hywel, King of the West Welsh, and Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owain, King of the people of Gwent, and Ealdred...of Bamburgh" records the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Athelstan had the King's of the North British (meaning the Welsh) submit to him at Hereford, where he exacted a heavy tribute from them
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