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Siege of Exeter (c. 630)
According to some early medieval sources, the Siege of Exeter or Siege of Caer-Uisc was a military conflict that took place in or around 630 CE, between the Mercians, led by Penda of Mercia, and the Britons occupying Caer-Uisc (Exeter) in the kingdom of Dumnonia. Penda is said to have laid siege to the town until the exiled British High King Cadwallon of Gwynedd, arrived to confront him. An alliance between British and Mercian forces followed, secured by Cadwallon's marriage to Alcfrith, Penda's sister, and they marched north to face the armies of Northumbria (who were occpying Gwynedd) at the Battle of Cefn Digoll.
The Flores Historiarum (mistakenly attributed to Matthew of Westminster) recalls that the Britons were still in possession of Exeter in 632, when it was bravely defended against Penda of Mercia until relieved by Cadwallon, who engaged and defeated the Mercians with great slaughter.〔Jenkins, Alexander. ''The History and Description of the City of Exeter''. P. Hedgeland. 1806 p11〕 Geoffrey of Monmouth also paints a colourful account of the siege in his pseudo-historic Historia Regum Britanniae,〔Giles, J. A. ''Six Old English Chronicles''. Henry G. Bohn. 1848 p284〕 saying Cadwallon made an alliance with the British nobility.
Since the 19th century, historians have expressed doubts about the existence of this conflict. For instance in 1861, George Oliver wrote: and in 1887 Edward Augustus Freeman could say:
Reputable historians no longer mention the siege as historical fact.
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