Location: Northumberland / Northumberland

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Event ASC (C-F) 1042-1087  DE 1068   MS D: In this year King William 1 gave Earl Robert 6 the aldermanry of Northumberland; but the local people surrounded him in the city of Durham and killed him and 900 men with him. And soon after that the atheling Edgar 14 came to York with all the Northumbrians, and the citizens made peace with him. And King William 1 came on them by surprise from the south with an overwhelming army and routed them, and killed those who could not escape, which was many hundreds of men, and ravaged the city, and made St Peter’s minster an object of scorn, and ravaged and humiliated all the others. And the atheling went back to Scotland.

MS E: In this year King William 1 gave Earl Robert 6 the earldom of Northumberland. Then the local people came against him and killed him and 900 men with him. And the atheling Edgar 14 came then with all the Northumbrians to York, and the citizens made peace with him. And King William 1 came from the south with all his army and ravaged the city, and killed many hundreds of men. And the atheling went back to Scotland.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  i.15.1-2   Oda 1 went to Northumbria to bring away the holy bodies of saints, in whom that district had once been so fertile. So it came about that he saw to his grief the church of the excellent father Wilfrid 2 at Ripon in the state of ruin brought on it by the Danes; he cleared away the rubble over the tomb, and respectfully moved the relics to Canterbury.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  i.72.3-4   [Paulinus 1] was (we are told) a Roman by birth, one of the men sent by St Gregory 1 to serve the Word in England. Archbishop Justus 1 ordained him bishop and appointed him to evangelize the Northumbrians. He summoned the reluctant Edwin 2 to the faith by confronting him with a miracle which God had in his mercy once sent to the king, and which the spirit of prophecy now put into Paulinus 1's mind. He received the pallium from Pope Honorius 2, and consecrated Honorius 1 archbishop of Canterbury to follow Justus 1. After winning much booty from the Devil among the northern people, he was forcibly turned out of his see by enemy action, and returned to Kent. It was then that he took over the rule of the church of Rochester, for this holy priest was favoured and solicited by Archbishop Honorius 1 and King Eadbald 2. He took on what in their charity his brethren suggested, and, after contenting himself of a while with this inferior post, went the way of all flesh at the due time, nineteen years, two months and twenty-one days after he was ordained to York.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.73.8   Although Cedd 1 was the second bishop of London, he was buried in Northumbria, at his monastery Lastingham.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.21   Danish chieftains Ivar 1 and Ubba 5 arrived to plunder the provinces of the Northumbrians and East Angles. Ivar 1 captured the king [Edmund 6], who made no resistance, but threw away is weapons and lay praying flat on the ground; and after various tortures he was beheaded.
Office SymeonofDurham.DeNorthymbrorumComitibus  382 Oswulf 36 held office of Comes for Eadred 16 after Eric 1
Office SymeonofDurham.DeNorthymbrorumComitibus  383 Gospatric 1 held office of Comes