BATTLES OF EAST ANGLIA

All		0900	.Map of the Danelaw	The boundaries of the Danelaw, a Danish colony, were established By Truce Once Alfred Of Wessex Had Put An End To Danish Expansion From East Anglia.
Lincs		1220	Bytham	Royalists, clearing up after the Barons War, besiege and take this castle.
Lincs		1640s	Grantham	English Civil War
Lincs		1643	.Winceby	An English Civil War battle involving primarily or exclusively cavalry forces
Lincs	Empingham	1470	.Losecote field	The rebellion of Welles is crushed, the rebels flinging off their coats to escape
Lincs	Lincoln	1643	Gainsboro	English Civil War; by superior discipline the horse of Cromwell rout those of Cavendish
Lincs	Lindsey	1066	Lindsey	Earl Edwin bt Tostig
Norfolk	Thetford	1004	Thetford	Danes (Swein, son of King of Denmark) bt Ulfkell Snilling of Norfolf
Norfolk	4m sse North Walsham,	1381 (Jun?)	North Walsham	Widespread unrest in Norfolk during Wat Tyler’s Peasants Revolt was caused by taxation. The rebels gathered at Thetford collecting together men from Brandon and Diss before moving across Breckland towards Norwich where they assembled on Mousehold Heath and then entered the city. They then moved on to Great Yarmouth plundering and burning as they went. Within 2 weeks the uprising was fragmented and largely confined to the north east of the county. The rebellion was quashed in Norfolk a few days later near North Walsham by forces under Bishop Despenser, and the leader Geoffrey Lister was tried and executed.
Norfolk	Thorpe st Andrew	1549	Dussindale	Kett's Rebellion of over 10,000 men camped on Mousehold Heath just outside Norwich and blockaded the city . During July and August Kett and his men took the city and successfully defended it against the Marquis of Northampton and the Kings army. However the Earl of Warwick with more of the King’s army and several thousand mercenaries arrived outside Norwich. Fighting continued for many days and after a battle at Dussindale (Thorpe St Andrew). Kett was finally captured. He was executed in the December at Norwich Castle.
Norfolk	Thetford	1010	Ringmere	Either Ringmere, between Thetford & East Wretham, or Rymer 4m s Thetford, Norfolk Danes (Thorkell the Tall & Hemming) bt Ulfkell Snilling of Norfolk
Suffolk		0869	Hoxne	Viking victory over the East Anglians
Suffolk	Ipswich	0917	Wiggingamere	Danes repulsed

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