Timeline of Cornish History - 1000

1000

• 1013 Cornwall's enemy and Anglo-Saxon neighbour, Wessex is crushed and conquered by a Danish army under the leadership of the Viking leader and King of Denmark Sweyn Forkbeard. Sweyn annexes Wessex to his Viking empire which includes Denmark and Norway. He does not, however, annex Cornwall, Wales and Scotland, allowing these "client nations" self-rule in return for an annual payment of tribute or "danegeld".
• 1014-1035 The Kingdom of Cornwall, Wales, much of Scotland and Ireland were not included in the territories of King Canute the Great
• 1016 - Famine throughout Europe.
• 1066 - Norman Conquest brings many Bretons into Cornwall. The Cornish and Breton languages are mutually intelligible at this point.
• 1066 According to William of Worcester, writing in the 15th century, Cadoc, was described as the last survivor of the Cornish royal line at the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066.
• 1066 William the Conqueror may have granted Cornwall to Brian of Brittany.
• 1067 - Harold Godwinson's sons, who have taken refuge in Ireland, raid Somerset, Devon and Cornwall from the sea.
• 1068 The Battle of Exeter - the Cornish attacked the Saxon stronghold of Exeter but were eventually driven back by an Anglo-Norman army sent to mop up pockets of resistance.
• 1069 Brian of Brittany, lord of Cornwall, defeats the sons of Harold near the River Taw
• 1070 (ca.) Robert, Count of Mortain made Earl of Cornwall.
• 1086 Domesday Survey: the major landholders in Cornwall are Robert, Count of Mortain, King William, the Bishop of Exeter, and Tavistock Abbey
• 1099 Mount's Bay inundated by the sea making St Michael's Mount an island