Hasten

First appears: A.D. 891–895

Life events

894 · Alfred's troops routed Hasten's force and destroyed its work.(A.D. 891–895 · 📍 Barnfleet)
- With: Alfred
- “Then came the king's troops, and routed the enemy, broke down the work, took all that was therein money, women, and children and brought all to London.”
894 · Alfred returned Hasten's wife and sons to him.(A.D. 891–895)
- “Hasten's wife and her two sons they brought to the king, who returned them to him, because one of them was his godson, and the other Alderman Ethered's.”

with Ethered, lord of the Mercians (The text calls Ethered Hasten's compeer.) “And as soon as they came to Bamfleet, and the work was built, then plundered he in the same quarter of his kingdom that Ethered his compeer should have held; and at another time he was plundering in the same district when his work was destroyed.”
with Alfred (Alfred returned Hasten's wife and sons to him.) “And Hasten's wife and her two sons they brought to the king, who returned them to him, because one of them was his godson, and the other Alderman Ethered's.”
with Ethered, lord of the Mercians (One of Hasten's unnamed sons was Ethered's godson.) “And Hasten's wife and her two sons they brought to the king, who returned them to him, because one of them was his godson, and the other Alderman Ethered's.”

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