Events Tagged: "anti-monastic"

Aelfhere of Mercia leads anti-monastic reaction - restores expelled secular clergy, seizes monastic lands, violent confrontations

Death of Edgar triggers succession crisis - pro-monastic party backs Edward, anti-monastic nobles back Aethelred

Edward murdered at Corfe - anti-monastic faction likely involved, Aethelred becomes king, monks lose royal protection

Aethelred initially favors anti-monastic party - restores some secular clergy, reduces monastic privileges