Chester
A city on the River Dee in northwest England, where six kings met Edgar's fleet and promised to be his allies.
Today: Chester, Cheshire, England
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154, in the edition of John Earle (Oxford, 1865) · entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155
Her wæs Eadgar eþeling gehalgod to cyninge on Pentecoste mæsse dæi on v id' Mai. þe xiii geare þe he to rice feng. æt Hatabaðum. and he wæs þa ana wana xxx wintra. and sona æfter þam se cyng ge leadde ealle his scip here to Lægeceastre. and þær him comon ongean vi cyningas. and ealle wið trywsodon ꝥ hi woldon efen wyrhton beon on sæ and on lande.
In this year Prince Edgar was consecrated king at Bath on Whitsunday, May 11, in the thirteenth year after he came to the throne. He was then just short of thirty years old. Soon after that the king led his whole fleet to Chester, and six kings came there to meet him. They all promised that they would be his allies on sea and on land.