{"slug": "guthrum", "label": "Guthrum", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrum", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462987", "qid": "Q462987", "description": "King of East Anglia from 879 to 890", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [872, 890], "span_label": ["872 CE", "890 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "great-heathen-army", "label": "Great Heathen Army", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alfred-the-great", "label": "Alfred the Great", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "exeter", "label": "Exeter", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "halfdan-ragnarsson", "label": "Halfdan Ragnarsson", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "river-thames", "label": "River Thames", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-east-anglia", "label": "Kingdom of East Anglia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 872, "year_label": "872 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Danes, led by Halfdan and Guthrum, establish a winter quarter at Torksey in the Kingdom of Lindsey (now part of Lincolnshire). King Burgred pays tribute (Danegeld) in return for 'peace'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071842#Britain", "title": "872", "revid": 1267071842, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 873, "year_label": "873 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Danish Great Heathen Army, led by the Viking leaders Halfdan and Guthrum, attack Mercia and capture the royal centre at Repton (Derbyshire). The Vikings establish an encampment with a U-shape ditch, on the south bank of the River Trent and spend the winter there.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072669#Britain", "title": "873", "revid": 1267072669, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 875, "year_label": "875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, moves on Cambridge. He later returns to Wessex, to establish a winter quarter. King Alfred the Great fights the Danes in a naval engagement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352180718#Britain", "title": "875", "revid": 1352180718, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, captures the fortress of Wareham (Dorset), and is met by a Viking army (3,500 men) from the sea, which lands at Poole Harbour. King Alfred the Great traps the Vikings, and demands hostages in return for a peace agreement. The Danes divide their forces; half flees to Exeter, where they besiege the town while the other half escape in their ships, but are lost in a storm near Swanage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Britain", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 877, "year_label": "877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – King Alfred the Great raises a large force, and marches on the Viking camp at the city of Exeter. His army besieges the Great Summer Army, led by Guthrum, and forces the Vikings to surrender. They flee north to Gloucester, and settle in the Five Boroughs (modern East Midlands).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071400#Britain", "title": "877", "revid": 1267071400, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 878, "year_label": "878 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Battle of Edington: Supported by all the levies of Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, Alfred the Great decisively defeats the main body of Danish Vikings, led by King Guthrum, at modern-day Edington, Wiltshire (near Bratton Castle).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353695287#Britain", "title": "878", "revid": 1353695287, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 879, "year_label": "879 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Viking leader Guthrum becomes 'king' of East Anglia. A Viking fleet sails up the River Thames, and builds a camp at Fulham (near London) to prepare for an invasion of France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348046041#Britain", "title": "879", "revid": 1348046041, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 890, "year_label": "890 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Guthrum, Danish Viking king (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373061013#Deaths", "title": "890", "revid": 1373061013, "section": "Deaths"}}]}