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Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, ... Uhtred was murdered in 1016, ... This page was last edited on 9 May 2024, ...
The name of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria as it appears on folio 153r of British Library Cotton MS Tiberius B I (the "C" version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): "Uhtrede eorle". Uhtred of Bamburgh ( Uhtred the Bold —sometimes Uchtred ; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria .
Ealdred was an Earl in north-east England from the death of his uncle, Eadwulf Cudel, soon after 1018 [1] until his murder in 1038. He is variously described by historians as Earl of Northumbria, [2] Earl of Bernicia (northern Northumbria) [1] and Earl of Bamburgh, [3] his stronghold on the Northumbrian coast. [4]
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
One of Siward's sons is known to have survived him, Waltheof, whose mother was Ælfflæd. Waltheof later rose to be an earl in the East Midlands before becoming Earl of Northumbria. [122] When Waltheof rebelled against William the Conqueror, however, the act led to his execution and to his subsequent veneration as a saint at Crowland Abbey. [123]
Eadwulf Cudel or Cutel (meaning cuttlefish [1]) (died early 1020s), sometimes numbered Eadwulf III, [2] was ruler of Bamburgh for some period in the early eleventh century. . Following the successful takeover of York by the Vikings in 866/7, southern Northumbria became part of the Danelaw, but in the north English rulers held on from a base at Bam
After his victory over Harold Godwinson at Hastings, William of Normandy appointed a certain Copsi or Copsig, a supporter of the late Earl Tostig, who had been exiled with his master in 1065, as Earl of Bernicia in the spring of 1067. Copsi was dead within five weeks, killed by Oswulf, grandson of
Simon was the son of Randel le Ryche [2] he had a brother called Garnier de Senlis, according to a manuscript of St Andrew’s Priory, Northampton. He married in or before 1090 Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, Northampton and Huntingdon and Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror. This Judith had earlier ...