1046_in_England
Events from the 1040s in England.
- Monarch – Harold I (to 17 March 1040), Harthacanute (17 March 1040 to 8 June 1042), then Edward the Confessor
- 1040
- 17 March – Harold Harefoot dies.[1]
- June – Harthacnut lands at Sandwich, Kent, and becomes King of England.[2]
- 1041
- Rebellion in Worcester against Harthacnut's naval taxes.
- Siward, Earl of Northumbria, kills Eadwulf IV of Bamburgh with the connivance of Harthacnut, possibly incorporating Bernicia into his Earldom of Northumbria thereafter.[3]
- Edward the Confessor returns from exile to become the heir of Harthacnut.[2]
- 1042
- 8 June – Harthacnut collapses and soon after dies during the wedding celebrations of Tovi the Proud at Lambeth[3] and is succeeded by his half-brother Edward the Confessor as King.[1]
- Encomium Emmae Reginae, a biography of the dowager Emma of Normandy, twice queen consort of England, is completed.[2]
- 1043
- 3 April – coronation of Edward the Confessor at Winchester Cathedral.[1]
- 16 November – Queen Emma accused of treason and her ally Stigand, Bishop of East Anglia, is dismissed.[2]
- Earl Leofric of Mercia founds Coventry Abbey; according to legend, his wife Godiva rides naked through the town in protest at taxes to fund the abbey.[2]
- 1044
- King Edward pardons Emma and Stigand.[2]
- 1045
- Marriage of King Edward and Edith of Wessex.[2]
- 1046
- 10 April – Leofric appointed Bishop of Crediton and Bishop of Cornwall.
- Earl Sweyn Godwinson is exiled after kidnapping the Abbess of Leominster during an invasion of south Wales.[2]
- Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, leads troops on an unsuccessful punitive raid against Welsh leaders Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.[4][5]
- Exeter Book of poetic riddles completed.[2]
- 1048
- Last Viking raid on England; unsuccessful raiders flee to Flanders.[2]
- King Edward goes to war against Flanders, blockading the English Channel with a fleet based at Sandwich.[2]
- 1049
- Sweyn Godwinson returns from exile, murders his cousin, and is exiled again.[2]
- Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile
- 1045
- Saint Margaret of Scotland daughter of Edgar Ætheling (died 1093)
- 1040
- 17 March – King Harold Harefoot (born c. 1015)
- 14 August – King Duncan I of Scotland (born ca. 1001)
- 1042
- 8 June – King Harthacanute (born 1018)
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 50–51. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Huscroft, Richard (2005). Ruling England 1042–1217. London: Pearson Longman. p. 49. ISBN 0-582-84882-2.
- Maund, Kari L. (2006). The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes. Stroud: Tempus. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-7524-2973-6.