{"id":6628,"date":"2021-11-13T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=191596"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:56:08","slug":"the-st-brices-day-massacre-of-1002","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-st-brices-day-massacre-of-1002\/","title":{"rendered":"The St Brice\u2019s Day Massacre of 1002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Dr David Musgrove\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 13 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>On 13 November 1002, the<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/anglo-saxon\/st-brices-day-massacre-what-happened-how-violent\/&quot;\"> St Brice\u2019s Day Massacre<\/a> took place, when Danes living in England were killed, apparently on the orders of King Aethelred. 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