Massacre of the Saint-Brice
The Massacre of the Saint-Brice is an operation ordered by Ethelred II, Anglo-Saxon king of England, which had made the project massacre all the Danish which had been established of force on its grounds, and which he suspected of plotting to deliver the kingdom to the State dano-Norwegian.
The massacre took place the November 13rd 1002, day of the Saint-Brice. The project, perhaps inspired by the brother-in-law of Ethelred, Richard II of Normandy makes failure, but much Scandinavians perish. The tradition claims that among the victims there was Dame Gunnhildr, the sister of the king de Danemark, Sven '' with the Beard fourchue '', frightening chief Viking, who already carried out victorious wars against the German and the Norwegian .
In counterpart with the “massacre of the Saint-Brice”, he undertakes at once to conquer the England. It enravagea south of the kingdom and the East-Anglie in 1003 - 1004 then again in 1006. The war took again in 1010 - 1012, and in 1013 Svein becomes king d' Angleterre.
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