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The plotting was apparently localised in the south-western shires, as we infer from the fact that the gemot sat in an unusual place, Cirencester in the Severn country.

The lords who attended this gemot were probably the local leaders south of the Thames; that the chiefs of the Danelaw were in attendance is very unlikely.

Some time during the first half of the year, a gemot was summoned to meet at Oxford, near the border of the Danelaw.

Most of these are associated with a Christmas gemot, when Canute was celebrating the first anniversary of his rule as king of England.

Florence of Worcester speaks of Edmund's "brothers" in narrating the discussions at the gemot of Christmas, 1016; but he may have thought of Queen Emma's children.