Wessex . ited men could be gathered around the Saxonstandard to resist the Danish invaders. Several kings of Wessex were buried in Wareham,and it was also here, in the Church of St Mary, thatthe body of hapless Edward the Martyr, treacherouslyslain at Corfe Castle, is said to have been the several periods of the Danish invasionsWareham was the constant objective of their attack,and in 878 it was invested by a Danish army,and the whole town was destroyed. King Alfred the Great, with the army he succeededin gathering around his standard, however, came to therescue of the inh
Wessex . ited men could be gathered around the Saxonstandard to resist the Danish invaders. Several kings of Wessex were buried in Wareham,and it was also here, in the Church of St Mary, thatthe body of hapless Edward the Martyr, treacherouslyslain at Corfe Castle, is said to have been the several periods of the Danish invasionsWareham was the constant objective of their attack,and in 878 it was invested by a Danish army,and the whole town was destroyed. King Alfred the Great, with the army he succeededin gathering around his standard, however, came to therescue of the inhabitants, and under his protection thetown was speedily rebuilt, and his daughter refoundedthe ruined nunnery which the Danish hordes hadplundered. King Athelstan had instituted a mint heremany years before, and it seems not improbable thatthis fact provided an extra inducement to the Danes 64 THK SAXON CHURCH AT WAREHAM The Anglebury of the Wessex Novels > « . » ,> • .. « . • » • • . ». Canute at Wareham for their attacks, as it is recorded that on several oftheir visits they obtained much plunder and returned here with his victorious army afterhaving ravaged the whole of Wessex and plunderedthe rich Abbey of Cerne. At the time of the Conquest the town had so farregained its prosperity and importance that it was oneof the manors retained by the Conqueror himself; andat this period a castle was erected, in which, in thereign of Henry I., one Robert de Belesme, Earlof Montgomery, known as the richest, greatest, andwickedest man of his age, was imprisoned for rebel-ling against the King. He is stated to have starvedhimself to death. The strategical importance and strength of thetown were, early in the period of the struggle betweenStephen and the Empress Maud, the cause of itsbeing involved in the war which ensued. The castlewas seized in the year 1138 by Robert of Lincoln inthe name of the Empress, and four years later bothit and the town were tak
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