A.D. 902.] REBELLION OF ETHELWALD. 235 collected a great army, and coming to Bath, pitched his camp not far from Wimburn ; which, when Ethelwald knew, he fled by night, and reaching Northumberland, he besought the Danes who lived there to admit him among them, and then to choose one of their number to fight against king Eadward. He was presently installed in the royal dignity by them all. Finding that he had fled out of his reach, king Eadward ordered the nun whom he had ravished to be taken back to her monastery. A s for Ethelwald, he took ship and crossed the sea to Gaul, hoping to return with a stronger force to harass the king. King EadwaraVs sons and daughters. In the meanwhile king Eadward extended the bounds of his kingdom more than his father, building new cities and towns, and restoring some that were destroyed. By a concubine named Egwinna'he begat Ethelstan, his eldest son. B y his queen Alfleda, daughter of earl Elfelm, he begat two sons, Ethelward and Eadwin; and six daughters, of whom Eadfleda, who was a nun, rests with her sister Ethelhilda at Wilton. The remaining four were given in marriage, the first, Eggiva, to Otho emperor of the Romans; another, Eadhilda, to Charles king of the French ; a third, St. Edgitha, to Sirie king of the Northumbrians; Algiva, the fourth, to Hugo son of duke Robert. B y his wife Edgitha also the same king had Eadmund and Eadred. A.D. 902. The aforesaid Ethelwald the atheling returned from beyond the sea, and collecting a numerous army of pagans from among those who lived in Northumberland and in East-Anglia, and in divers other places, in addition to the force he had brought with him from foreign parts, he made a hostile inroad into Mercia, destroying every thing in his way with fire and sword. Meeting with no opposition, as he was about to retire homeward with an immense booty, king Eadward came with a large body of troops, and pursued the fleeing Ethclwald towards East-Anglia, where finding him with all his men prepared for battle in the plain between the two trenches, he encouraged his men and mado a courageous attack on them ; but at the first onset there fell on the king's side the primates Sigulf and Sichelm, the abbats Eadwald and Kenulf, the nobles Sibert and Eadbald, and many others with