Rout of Winchester
September 14, 1141
After Empress Matilda's summer of supremacy, her half-brother Robert of Gloucester was captured by King Stephen's queen's forces during a retreat through Winchester. Matilda exchanged Robert for Stephen. The Anarchy settled into a grinding stalemate that neither side could break for another twelve years, reducing much of southern England to a landscape of unlicensed castles, burned villages, and extorted peasants.
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Also in 1141 (3 other events on record)
- Battle of Qatwan · Central Asia · War
- Treaty of Shaoxing · East Asia · Politics
- Battle of Lincoln · Europe · War
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.