Beorn the earl

Role: earl · First appears: A.D. 1050

Life events

1050 · Sweyn the earl had Beorn the earl bound, taken aboard ship, and slain.(A.D. 1050 · 📍 Dartmouth)
- With: Earl Sweyne
- “Then went he thence with him to Dartmouth, and there ordered him to be slain, and deeply buried.”

cousins with Earl Sweyne “While Godwin the earl and Beorn the earl lay at Pevensey, then came Sweyn the earl, and begged Beorn the earl, with fraud, who was his uncle's son, that he would be his companion to the king at Sandwich, and better his affairs with him.”
enemies with Earl Sweyne “He went then, on account of the relationship, with three companions, with him; and he led him then towards Bosham, where his ships lay: and then they bound him, and led him on ship-board.”
with Earl Sweyne (Sweyn ordered Beorn to be slain.) “Then went he thence with him to Dartmouth, and there ordered him to be slain, and deeply buried.”
with Earl Sweyne (Beorn promised assistance.) “And Beorn the earl promised him that he would be of assistance to him.”
younger kin: Earl Sweyne “While Godwin the earl and Beorn the earl lay at Pevensey, then came Sweyn the earl, and begged Beorn the earl, with fraud, who was his uncle's son, that he would be his companion to the king at Sandwich, and better his affairs with him.”
elder kin: King Knute “Afterwards he was found, and borne to Winchester, and buried with king Canute his uncle.”

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