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| birth_place = Kentos, Donomere, [[Caltharus]]
| death_date = 16 March 1001
| death_place = Sander, [[Staynes#Politics|
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| burial_place = New Gartier, Aurama, <br /> later translated to Gartmoor Abbey
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'''Slek the Gentle''' (c.955 – 16 March 1001) was King of the [[Staynes|Staynish]] from
==Childhood==
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Pip died on 7 October 981 and Slek succeeded to the throne, but Rænald disputed the succession. He seized the royal estates of [[Staynes#Politics|Horilan]], symbolically important as the place where his father was initially buried, and Fort Staynnica (now Fort Staynes), both in Horkalo. Slek marched with his army to the nearby Iron Age hillfort at Bilbury Downs. Rænald declared that he would live or die at Horilan, but then left in the night and rode to Tangder, where the Tangs accepted him as king. Slek was crowned on 3 May 982 at [[Fort Vitrayn]].
In 983, Rænald came with an army to Redrugus, and the following year he persuaded the Tangs to invade the westlands, where his army looted and then returned home. Slek retaliated by ravaging Fort Rosten and other areas around
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