Beorn

Also known as: Beorn the earl / Earl Beorn · Role: earl · First appears: A.D. 1046–1047

In 1046, Beorn, an earl and the nephew of King Knute, was seized by Earl Sweyne’s men and taken by ship to Exmouth, where Sweyne’s party slew him. In 1049, Sweyne bound Beorn at Bosham and took him by ship; at Dartmouth, his men slew him and buried him deep.

Afterwards, Harold son of Godwin, Beorn’s cousin, recovered his body and buried him at Winchester with King Knute. Beorn was also Earl Sweyne’s cousin, and in 1049 he had gone with Earl Godwin from Sandwich to Pevensey.

Relationship record

Life events

• 1046 · Sweyne’s men seized Beorn, carried him aboard a ship, and Sweyne’s party later slew him.(A.D. 1046–1047 · 📍 Exmouth)
  • With: Earl Sweyne
  • “He strenuously refused, so long as until his seamen seized him, and threw him into the boat, and bound him, and rowed to the ship, and put him there aboard. Then they hoisted up their sails and ran west to Exmouth, and had him with them until they slew him:”
• 1049 · Earl Sweyne bound Earl Beorn and took him away by ship.(A.D. 1049 · 📍 Bosham)
  • With: Earl Sweyne
  • “but they suddenly bound him, and led him to the ships”
• 1049 · Earl Sweyne's men slew Earl Beorn and buried him deep.(A.D. 1049 · 📍 Dartmouth)
  • With: Earl Sweyne
  • “where they ordered him to be slain and buried deep.”
• 1049 · Harold recovered Earl Beorn's body and buried him with King Knute.(A.D. 1049 · 📍 Winchester)
  • With: Harold son of Godwin King Knute
  • “Harold his cousin fetched him thence, and led him to Winchester, to the old minster, where he buried him with King Knute, his uncle.”

A.D. 1046–1047

• elder kin: King Knute “And then his friends and litsmen came from London, and took him up, and bore him to Winchester to the Old-minster, and he is there buried with King Canute his uncle.”
• enemies with Earl Sweyne “Then they hoisted up their sails and ran west to Exmouth, and had him with them until they slew him:”
• with Earl Sweyne (interaction) “Then befell it during this, that word came to the king that hostile ships lay westward, and were ravaging. Then went Godwin the earl west about with two of the king's ships; the one commanded Harold the earl, and the other Tosty his brother; and forty-two of the people's ships.”

A.D. 1049

• cousins with Earl Sweyne “came Earl Sweyne, and with a pretence requested of Earl Beorn, who was his uncle's son, that he would be his companion to the king at Sandwich”
• cousins with Harold son of Godwin “He was afterwards found, and Harold his cousin fetched him thence, and led him to Winchester, to the old minster, where he buried him with King Knute, his uncle.”
• elder kin: King Knute “He was afterwards found, and Harold his cousin fetched him thence, and led him to Winchester, to the old minster, where he buried him with King Knute, his uncle.”
• with Earl Sweyne (Sweyne's party abducted and killed Beorn.) “but they suddenly bound him, and led him to the ships, and went thence with him to Dartmouth, where they ordered him to be slain and buried deep.”
• with Earl Godwin (Beorn travelled with Godwin.) “Earl Godwin also sailed forty-two ships from Sandwich to Pevensey, and Earl Beorn went with him.”
• with Edward son of Ethelred (Beorn was asked to help Sweyne approach the king.) “and better his condition with him; adding, that he would swear oaths to him, and be faithful to him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.