Winchester
The chief city of Wessex, where Edward the Confessor was consecrated king in 1043. The oldest surviving copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was probably written in Wessex, perhaps at Winchester, and was kept there by the mid-900s.
Today: Winchester, Hampshire, 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 Æðward gehalgod to cyng on Winceastre on Æster dæg mid mycclum wurðscipe. and þa wæron Eastron on iii non' Apr'. Eadsige arc̃b' hine halgode. and foran eallum folce hine well lærde. and to his agenre neode and ealles folces well monude. [...]
In this year Edward was consecrated king at Winchester on Easter Day, with great ceremony. Easter fell that year on April 3. Archbishop Eadsige consecrated him. In front of all the people he gave the king good teaching, and urged him to look after his own good and the good of all the people.