Events Tagged: "archbishop"

Canterbury sacked and Archbishop Aelfheah captured - Thorkell's Vikings destroy cathedral, hold archbishop for ransom

Murder of Archbishop Aelfheah at Greenwich - killed by drunken Vikings, causes Thorkell to defect to Aethelred

Lund becomes archbishopric - Denmark gains ecclesiastical independence from Hamburg-Bremen

Archbishop Scrope's rebellion - executed for treason, Henry IV said to develop leprosy as divine punishment