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In Anglo-Saxon England, the Earl of York or Ealdorman of York was the ruler of the southern half of Northumbria.The titles ealdorman and earl both come from Old English. The ealdormanry (earldom) seems to have been created in 966 following a period when the region was under the control of Oswulf, already high-reeve of Bamburgh in northern Northumbria, from about 954, when Norse rule at York ...
Here, the ealdorman of Hampshire is called by the English title "ealdorman", while Thored himself is styled by the Scandinavian word eorl (i.e. Earl). [1] Two accounts of Thored's origins have been offered by modern historians. The first is that he was a son of Oslac, ealdorman of York from 966 until his exile in 975. [2]
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.
Oslac attested three charters as earl in 963, all relating to the northern Danelaw. [4] He may have acceded on the death or deposition of his predecessor Osulf. [5] Some of these charters are problematic as source documents, having been recorded only in later cartularlies; there is thus a possibility of interference in their transmission.
Scandinavian York or Viking [a] York (Old Norse: Jórvík) is a term used by historians for what is now Yorkshire [b] during the period of Scandinavian domination from late 9th century until it was annexed and integrated into England after the Norman Conquest; in particular, it is used to refer to York, the city controlled by these kings and earls.
2nd Duke of York 1373–1415: Roger Mortimer Earl of March 1374–1398: Edmund Mortimer Earl of March 1391–1425: Anne de Mortimer 1390–1411: Richard of Conisburgh Earl of Cambridge 1385–1415: Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York 1411–1460: Edward IV 4th Duke of York 1442–1483 r. 1461–1470, 1471–1483: Edmund Earl of Rutland 1443 ...
Only elements of Oswulf's origin are accounted for. A genealogy in the text De Northumbria post Britannos, recording the ancestry of Waltheof Earl of Northampton (and, briefly, Northumbria), says that Oswulf was the son of Eadwulf I of Bamburgh, the ′King of the Northern English′ who died in 913. [2]
After the war, York slowly regained its former pre-eminence in the North, and, by 1660, was the third-largest city in England after London and Norwich. In 1686 the Bar Convent was founded, in secret due to anti-catholic Laws, making it the oldest surviving convent in England. York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.