Battle of Hatfield Chase
The Battle of Hatfield Chase took place on October 12, 633, north of Doncaster , England . It was fought between a Northumbrian army under King Edwin and a combined force of the Kingdom of Gwynedd under Cadwallon ap Cadfan and Mercias under Penda .
The reason for this dispute is probably an annexation of the islands of Anglesey and Man by Edwin a few years earlier.
The battle ended in a crushing defeat for Northumbria. King Edwin and his son Osfrith fell, and Penda later had his other son Eadfrith killed.
Northumbria did not fall to Cadwallon, but was divided again. Eanfrith , the son of the former King Æthelfrith , returned from exile in Scotland and became King of Bernicia , while Osric , a cousin of Edwin, became King of Deira .
Cadwallon continued his battle against Northumbria, culminating in the Battle of Heavenfield a year later .
Historical source
In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle October 14 is given as the day of the battle:
- AD 633 .- This year King Edwin was slain by Cadwalla and Penda, on Hatfield moor, on the fourteenth of October. He reigned seventeen years. His son Osfrid was also slain with him. After this Cadwalla and Penda went and ravaged all the land of the Northumbrians; which when Paulinus saw, he took Ethelburga, the relict of Edwin, and went by ship to Kent. Eadbald and Honorius received him very honorably, and gave him the bishopric of Rochester, where he continued to his death.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Part1: AD 1-748 ( English ) In: Online Medieval and Classical Library Release # 17 . mcllibrary.org. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 6 " N , 0 ° 55 ′ 33" W.