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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.
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.
Source material on Siward's life and career is scarce. No contemporary or near-contemporary biography has survived, and narratives from around the time of his life such as the Encomium Emmae and the Vita Ædwardi Regis scarcely mention him; historians depend on a few entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and comparable Irish sources.
In 1016 the Danish ruler Cnut the Great became king of England, and a new ealdorman (Eiríkr Hákonarson) was appointed to govern in York; and so, if the battle took place subsequently, as in 1018, Uhtred would have been a diminished ruler; once ruler of most of the old kingdom of Northumbria, he was now reduced to his homeland in Bamburgh and ...
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]
Son of Waltheof. After 1006 he was ealdorman of Northumbria, i.e. he governed southern Northumbria as an ealdorman, regional governor, of the English king, in addition to rulership of Bamburgh. [14] Eadwulf III Cudel: fl. c. 1020 comes: Son of Waltheof. Known and titled only in post-Conquest sources. [15] Ealdred (II) fl. c. 1030 comes: Son of ...
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
The title of Earl of Northumberland has been created several times in the Peerage of England and of Great Britain, succeeding the title Earl of Northumbria. Its most famous holders are the House of Percy ( alias Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages.