The Chinsenbury Rebellion occurred in 1066 when the Anglo-Saxon thegn Ealhwine evicted Edgar the Aetheling's loyalists from Chinsenbury and took control of the Wiltshire village for himself. The Norman duke William the Conqueror marched his army from Surrey to capture Chinsenbury and continue his westward drive, and his army confronted Ealhwine's rebel army at Chinsenbury. The numerically-inferior Saxon army was cornered and destroyed by the battle-hardened Normans, who occupied Chinsenbury.