King Angus MacFergus of the Picts commanded a mixed army of Scots and Picts who were fighting an army of Saxons from Northumbria. |
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Miss Owen became a fashion stylist in London after graduating from Northumbria University with a degree in economics, sociology and geography. |
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At the University of Northumbria, applications to study criminology and forensic science have doubled. |
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When Earl Siward of Northumbria died two years later, his earldom went to Harold's brother Tostig. |
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Kenneth raided Northumbria repeatedly, but his kingdom suffered assaults from the Britons of Strathclyde as well as Scandinavians. |
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The Observer has had to apologise for saying the handsome town of North Shields is in Northumbria. |
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Northumbria Police issued photographs of her injuries as part of a public appeal to track down the crazed knifeman. |
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In 944, when the last Danish king was expelled from York, Northumbria became an earldom of England. |
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Northumbria Police said no police vehicles were in pursuit of the stolen car at the time of the crash. |
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Like Whitby in Northumbria, several of the Kentish minsters had been double houses, comprising communities of nuns and monks ruled by an abbess. |
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In 1055, Earl Siward of Northumbria died whilst his son, Waltheof, was too young to succeed him, and Harold manoeuvred his brother Tostig into the earldom. |
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His position once secured, his conduct in all the kingdoms except Northumbria and Wessex seems to have been more that of a direct ruler than a remote overlord. |
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The city was, at the time, the capital of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria, the people of which were engaged in a bitter civil war between King Osbert and his rival Aelle. |
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Many of the inhabitants of Northumbria were Danes, who had enjoyed lesser taxation than in other parts of England. |
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It later merged with the kingdom of Bernicia, its northern neighbour, to form the kingdom of Northumbria. |
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The Kingdom of Lindsey, which today is Northern Lincolnshire, was part of Northumbria before being lost to Mercia. |
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By 878, the Vikings had overrun East Anglia, Northumbria, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex. |
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Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. |
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Of these, all of Northumbria and most of Mercia were overrun by the Vikings during the 9th century. |
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Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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The 7th century saw a struggle for hegemony between Northumbria and Mercia, which in the 8th century gave way to Mercian preeminence. |
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After a number of successful operations elsewhere, he came to Northumbria and appears at some point to have set himself up as king. |
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Broughton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. |
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Before the Conquest, Furness, assessed to contain 82 ploughlands, was part of the Manor of Hougun, held by Tostig, Earl of Northumbria. |
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Newcastle University and Northumbria University are the leading academic institutions nearby. |
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Earl Uchtred and all Northumbria quickly bowed to him, as did all the people of the Kingdom of Lindsey, then the people of the Five Boroughs. |
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They served as junior Earls of Bernicia under the titular authority of the Earl of Northumbria. |
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At its greatest extent, Northumbria stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and from Edinburgh down to Hallamshire in South Yorkshire. |
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Following the Roman period, the area became part of the kingdom of Rheged, and then the kingdom of Northumbria. |
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It was historically known as Siward's Cross, most likely in connection with Siward, Earl of Northumbria at the time of Edward the Confessor. |
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In 1055 Siward died but his son was considered too young to command Northumbria, and Harold's brother, Tostig was appointed. |
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In 1059 he visited Edward, but in 1061 he started raiding Northumbria with the aim of adding it to his territory. |
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He built a second castle at York, strengthened Norman forces in Northumbria and then returned south. |
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Northumbria Police has recently set up the Restorative Justice Unit, at Forth Banks in Newcastle city centre. |
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William advanced into Northumbria, defeating an attempt to block his crossing of the swollen River Aire at Pontefract. |
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Bede similarly moved Shropshire and Cheshire to Northumbria, which Saxon territory did not exist at the time of the actions in those territories. |
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His information about Mercia came from Lastingham, in Northumbria, and from Lindsey, a province on the borders of Northumbria and Mercia. |
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The local Environment Agency office, located in Newcastle Business Park, also uses the term Northumbria to describe its patch. |
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Run in conjunction with the University Gallery at Newcastle's Northumbria University, phrases like hook nose and carrot top are being examined. |
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He lives in Warkworth and runs Northumbria People, a company which provides advocacy and funeral celebrancy. |
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He then met with William the Lion in April and rejected William the Lion's offer to purchase Northumbria, which William had a claim over. |
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Northumbria was originally formed from the union of two independent kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira. |
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Bowie knives, two bill hooks and an axe switch blade were among 2,606 knives handed in to Northumbria Police last summer. |
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The regions of East Anglia and Northumbria are still known by their original titles. |
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Guest houses in the region are being encouraged to do their bit to help the Northumbria in Bloom bid. |
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The study conducted by Northumbria Mammal Group and Durham Wildlife Trust has revealed encouraging signs of harvest mice. |
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It will be carried out by Northumbria University educationists Jim Clark and Helen Taylor. |
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Newcastle also houses Newcastle University, a member of the Russell Group, as well as Northumbria University. |
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The new man at the top of the Northumbria force certainly wasn't pussyfooting around in his first major interview since taking over the reins. |
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Northumbria Flying School, based at Newcastle airport, offers a range of packages. |
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Newcastle is also home to a large student population with Newcastle and Northumbria Universities in the local area. |
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Both of these rulers were killed during the year that followed, as Cadwallon continued his devastating invasion of Northumbria. |
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Eventually, Northumbria was persuaded to move to the Roman practice and the Celtic Bishop Colman of Lindisfarne returned to Iona. |
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Northumbria then saw a Golden Age in cultural, scholarly and monastic activity, centred on Lindisfarne and aided by Irish monks. |
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Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary. |
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These disappeared in the early nineteenth century from the industrialising south of the region, but remain in the music of Northumbria. |
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Solid evidence for the origins of Ripon can be traced back to the 7th century, the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. |
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Northumbria was disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and Scotland. |
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Northumbria University has the most students, followed by Teesside University. |
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Rebellions continued, and William's son William Rufus decided to partition Northumbria. |
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How is the Naked Lady of Northumbria going to fit in or will it not distract drivers? |
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Works from the south were more restrained in their ornamentation than are those from Northumbria. |
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The flourishing of sculpture in Mercia, occurred slightly later than in Northumbria and is dated to the second half of the 8th century. |
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There are many similarities between Modern Scots dialects and those of Northumbria. |
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The first recorded church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. |
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The treasures of Durham Cathedral include relics of St Cuthbert, the head of St Oswald of Northumbria and the remains of the Venerable Bede. |
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An example can be seen in the entry for 829, which describes Egbert's invasion of Northumbria. |
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His success prompted the king's son, Alhfrith, to appoint him Bishop of Northumbria. |
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The area which this kingdom covered included most of Southern Northumbria, roughly equivalent to the borders of Yorkshire extending further West. |
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In 827, Northumbria submitted to Egbert of Wessex at Dore, briefly making Egbert the first king to reign over a united England. |
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Even by the standards of the time, the ravaging of Northumbria by the Scots was seen as harsh. |
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In due course Bernicia united with Deira to form the Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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Between the Humber and Forth the English had formed into two main kingdoms, Deira and Bernicia, often united as the Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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The Vita is selective in its coverage, and gives short shrift to Wilfrid's activities outside of Northumbria. |
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It views the events in Northumbria in the light of Wilfrid's reputation and from his point of view, and is highly partisan. |
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The church in Northumbria had traditionally used the Celtic method, and that was the date observed by King Oswiu. |
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Those monks and clergy unable to accept the Whitby decision left Northumbria, some going to Ireland and others to Iona. |
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As a result, and because of his performance at Whitby, Wilfrid was elected to a bishopric in Northumbria about a year after the council. |
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Wilfrid delayed his return from Gaul, only to find on his arrival back in Northumbria that Ceadda had been installed as bishop in his place. |
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During his return to Northumbria Wilfrid's ship was blown ashore on the Sussex coast, the inhabitants of which were at that time pagan. |
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After the Norse settled in what is now Yorkshire, Northumbria was effectively cut in two. |
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Wilfrid was one of the first churchmen in Northumbria to utilise written charters as records of gifts to his churches. |
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In 680 Wilfrid returned to Northumbria and appeared before a royal council. |
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In 686 Wilfrid was recalled to Northumbria after the death of Ecgfrith in battle with the Picts. |
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When no compromise was possible Wilfrid left Northumbria for Mercia, and Bosa was returned to York. |
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This area of land had previously been a part of the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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In 866, Northumbria was in the midst of internecine struggles when the Vikings raided and captured York. |
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In the kingdom of Northumbria, these two traditions coexisted, and each had been encouraged by different royal houses. |
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Wulfhere initially succeeded in restoring the power of Mercia, but the end of his reign saw a serious defeat by Northumbria. |
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Willibrord may have felt it expedient to leave Northumbria, where he was known as one of Wilfrid's followers. |
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He made many contacts and friends, not only in Northumbria and the other English kingdoms, but also in Gaul, Frisia, and Italy. |
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Ripon was the first church in Northumbria to incorporate a porticus, similar to those of churches in Kent. |
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Missionaries inspired by his example went from Northumbria to the continent, where they converted pagans in Germany and elsewhere. |
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In his years of evangelism, Aidan was responsible for the construction of churches, monasteries and schools throughout Northumbria. |
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Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. |
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Hereward was then joined by a small army led by Morcar, the Saxon former Earl of Northumbria who had been ousted by William. |
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The role of the Kingdom of Northumbria in the formation of the new style appears to have been pivotal. |
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In 829 he conquered Mercia, driving its King Wiglaf into exile, and secured acknowledgement of his overlordship from the king of Northumbria. |
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Northumbria possesses a distinctive style of folk music with a flourishing and continuing tradition. |
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In 627, Edwin of Northumbria conquered the Isle of Man along with most of Mercia. |
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Over the following years, what became known as the Great Heathen Army overwhelmed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia. |
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Consequently, the death of a Wessex king would be followed by rebellion, particularly in Northumbria. |
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It also had ties to churches in Northumbria, as seen in the reign of Nechtan mac Der Ilei. |
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The Historia Brittonum states that Oswiu, king of Northumbria, married a Briton who may have had some Pictish ancestry. |
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Cadwallon ap Cadfan of the Kingdom of Gwynedd allied with Penda of Mercia to defeat Edwin of Northumbria. |
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The Pictish victory marked their independence from Northumbria, who never regained their dominance in the north. |
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In 927 Edward's successor Athelstan conquered Northumbria, bringing the whole of England under one ruler for the first time. |
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Of these, Northumbria south of the Tyne, and most of Mercia, were overrun by the Vikings during the 9th century. |
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Richard Oram has conjectured that David's ultimate aim was to bring the whole of the ancient kingdom of Northumbria into his dominion. |
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However, following his death and a year of political instability, Oswald of Northumbria gained the throne. |
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Bede wrote a preface for the work, in which he dedicates it to Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria. |
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He also inherited the title of Earl of Northumbria in 1152 from his father, Henry of Scotland. |
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This caused trouble after William became king, since he spent a lot of effort trying to regain Northumbria. |
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William attempted to purchase Northumbria from Richard in 1194, as he had a strong claim over it. |
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Whatever the case may be, Cadwallon was certainly affected by the ambitions of Edwin, King of Northumbria. |
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Halfdan and Ivar moved north and captured Northumbria in 867 and York as well. |
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In this furious campaign his armies devastated Northumbria, captured and sacked York in 633 and briefly controlled the kingdom. |
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The Annales Cambriae is the source for Eowa's death in 644 at the battle of Maserfield, where Penda defeated Oswald of Northumbria. |
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However, there is no evidence that Northumbria was ever under Mercian control during Offa's reign. |
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However, in 1980, Wendy Stein made an extensive argument for Lichfield, viewing Wales as unlikely but Ireland and Northumbria as still possible. |
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He was driven back to his ships by the brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria. |
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The Danes then placed an Englishman, Ecgberht I of Northumbria, on the throne of Northumbria as a puppet ruler. |
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In ten years, the Danes had gained control over East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia, leaving just Wessex resisting. |
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The priory remained the only seat of a bishopric in Northumbria for nearly thirty years. |
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The remainder, Cumbria, northern Northumbria, Lothian and much of the Kingdom of Strathclyde formed the diocese of Lindisfarne. |
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He refused William's request for the earldom of Northumbria, but did not intervene in Scotland itself and focused on his continental problems. |
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They wreaked havoc in Northumbria and Mercia and the rest of Anglia before being halted by Wessex. |
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In 957, the thanes of Mercia and Northumbria changed their allegiance to Edgar. |
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According to tradition, the widowed Agatha decided to leave Northumbria, England with her children and return to the continent. |
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Some counties are grouped together for this purpose, such as Northumberland with Tyne and Wear to form the Northumbria Police area. |
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Three years later in 1055, Tostig became the Earl of Northumbria upon the death of Earl Siward. |
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The Danes now controlled East Anglia, Northumbria and Mercia, with only Wessex continuing to resist. |
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In 1063, still immersed in the confused local politics of Northumbria, his popularity apparently plummeted. |
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Dumfries was once within the borders of the Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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The Britons of Wales later made their peace with the Vikings and Anarawd ap Rhodri allied with the Norsemen occupying Northumbria to conquer the north. |
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According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia. |
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Northumbria held suzerainty amidst the Teutonic presence in the British Isles in the 7th century, but was eclipsed by the rise of Mercia in the 8th century. |
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In political terms he is a partisan of his native Northumbria, amplifying its role in English history over and above that of Mercia, its great southern rival. |
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Goffart sees the writing of the Historia as motivated by a political struggle in Northumbria between a party devoted to Wilfrid, and those opposed to Wilfrid's policies. |
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After Edwin's death, Northumbria was split between Bernicia, where Eanfrith, a son of Aethelfrith, took power, and Deira, where a cousin of Edwin, Osric, became king. |
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After the English regained the territory of the former kingdom, Scots invasions reduced Northumbria to an earldom stretching from the Humber to the Tweed. |
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He realised he needed to control Northumbria, which had remained virtually independent of the Kings of England, to protect his kingdom from Scottish invasion. |
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Malcolm III fought a series of wars against the Kingdom of England, which may have had as its objective the conquest of the English earldom of Northumbria. |
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If a marriage agreement was made in 1059, it was not kept, and this may explain the Scots invasion of Northumbria in 1061 when Lindisfarne was plundered. |
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Over time and due to various factors, the language of Lothian and Northumbria, a northern variety of Middle English, came to displace Gaelic as the language of the Lowlands. |
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In 865, East Anglia was invaded by the Danish Great Heathen Army, which occupied winter quarters and secured horses before departing for Northumbria. |
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In 681, the exiled St Wilfrid of Northumbria arrived in the kingdom of the South Saxons and remained there for five years evangelising and baptising the people. |
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Little is known of warfare between the English and the Danes over the next few years, but in 909, Edward sent a West Saxon and Mercian army to ravage Northumbria. |
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Hakon was possibly the Earl of Northumbria after Erik as well. |
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In 1065 Northumbria revolted against Tostig, and the rebels chose Morcar, the younger brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia, as earl in place of Tostig. |
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Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066 and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York. |
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By the middle of the 10th century, Alfred's successors had conquered Northumbria, and restored English control over most of the southern part of Great Britain. |
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The capital of Powys, Pengwern, at or near modern Shrewsbury, was conquered by Oswiu of Northumbria in 656 when he had become overlord of the Mercians. |
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The city is also home to the Newcastle Eagles basketball team who play their home games at the new Sport Central complex at Northumbria University. |
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Conversely, more restrictive definitions also exist, typically based on the extent of the historical Northumbria, which exclude Cheshire and Lincolnshire. |
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In the 1139 peace treaty that followed, Prince Henry of Scotland was made Earl of Northumberland and kept the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumbria. |
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The school claims to take roots from the school which was attached to the Collegiate Church, founded during the time of the Angle kingdom of Northumbria by Saint Wilfrid. |
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Penda is found ravaging Northumbria as far north as Bamburgh and only a miraculous intervention from Aidan prevents the complete destruction of the settlement. |
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After four years, the Scandinavians therefore split up, some to settle in Northumbria and East Anglia, the remainder to try their luck again on the Continent. |
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The fact that these works are all from Northumbria might be held to reflect the particular strength of the church in that kingdom during the second half of the century. |
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After Justus' departure from Northumbria, a new king, Oswald, invited missionaries from the Irish monastery of Iona, who worked to convert the kingdom. |
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Cuthbert's cult had appealed to the converted Danes who now made up much of the population of Northumbria, and was also adopted by the Normans when they took over England. |
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Before Wilfrid's return Oswiu had appointed Ceadda in his place, resulting in Wilfrid's retirement to Ripon for a few years following his arrival back in Northumbria. |
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After becoming Archbishop of Canterbury in 668, Theodore of Tarsus resolved the situation by deposing Ceadda and restoring Wilfrid as the Bishop of Northumbria. |
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Pope Agatho ruled in Wilfrid's favour, but Ecgfrith refused to honour the papal decree and instead imprisoned Wilfrid on his return to Northumbria before exiling him. |
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His opponents in Northumbria excommunicated him, but the papacy upheld Wilfrid's side, and he regained possession of Ripon and Hexham, his Northumbrian monasteries. |
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When Theodore, the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, arrived in England in 669 it was clear that something had to be done about the situation in Northumbria. |
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Willibrord was a monk of Ripon who was also a native of Northumbria. |
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He had been her spiritual adviser in the 670s, and had helped the queen become a nun against the wishes of her husband King Ecgfrith of Northumbria. |
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Following Wilfrid's arrival in Rome the pope held a council, which declared that the King of Northumbria should follow the earlier papal decrees restoring Wilfrid to his see. |
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The new king, Eadwulf, had been considered one of Wilfrid's friends, but after his accession to the throne he ordered Wilfrid to stay out of Northumbria. |
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According to the account in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica, he was first a herdsman before living as a monk at the abbey of Whitby in Northumbria in the 7th century. |
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In 638, the Gododdin stronghold was besieged by forces loyal to King Oswald of Northumbria, and around this time control of Lothian passed to the Angles. |
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From the Forth south to the River Humber lay the kingdom of Northumbria. |
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Battles between the Picts and the Britons of Alt Clut, or Strathclyde, are recorded in 744 and again in 750, when Kyle was taken from Alt Clut by Eadberht of Northumbria. |
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Danish and Norse attacks on southern Northumbria caused its power to falter and the northern portion became equally open to annexation by Scotland. |
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Most of the area today called northern England and been overrun by the invading Angles of Deira and Bernicia who were in the process of forming the Kingdom of Northumbria. |
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They proceeded to cross England into Northumbria and captured York, establishing the Viking community of Jorvik, where some settled as farmers and craftsmen. |
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The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald. |
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Tostig appears to have governed in Northumbria with some difficulty. |
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After Rheged was incorporated into Northumbria, the old Cumbric language was gradually replaced by Old English, Cumbric surviving only in remote upland communities. |
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By the time of the first historical records of Lindsey, it had become a subjugated polity, under the alternating control of Northumbria and Mercia. |
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Millom is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun which was held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. |
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One reason is that both regions have their cultural origins in the old Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria, a fact borne out by the linguistic links between the two regions. |
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In addition the Northumbria Police force, which covers the whole of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, is one of several joint forces in England spanning two or more counties. |
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In 685, St Cuthbert, visiting the Queen of Northumbria in her sister's monastery at Carlisle, was taken to see the city walls and a marvellously constructed Roman fountain. |
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Mohammed Abdal Miah, from Newcastle, was arrested on Monday by officers from Northumbria Police working on behalf of the North East Counter Terrorism Unit. |
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The Tynemouth Scouts, who put on their Gang Show at Whitley Bay Playhouse, received 165 neckerchiefs and 220 woggles from the Northumbria Police Charities Fund. |
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Kick Start, based at Red Row Welfare in Morpeth, Northumberland, received sports equipment from officers after applying to the Northumbria Police Charities Fund. |
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Rank and file officers in Northumbria Police are about to vote on new work rotas designed to ensure more of them are on duty during the busiest periods. |
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The previous evening, Northumbria Police had been called by the ambulance service who were treating Mr Lewins, a self-harmer who had used razor blades to cut his arm. |
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On August 8 that year, Andrew Liddle, 36, was caught with 12kg of methylamphetamine with an estimated street value of PS2,525,080 travelling from Hartlepool to Northumbria. |
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Northumbria University's solar physics research group is also involved in an international project to build the world's biggest and most revolutionary solar telescope. |
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The Northumbria sports scholar graduated from Coppin State University with an English degree in the summer and will continue her studies in the North East. |
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The worker, who was a member of the ground crew employed by global cargo firm Swissport, was arrested on May 9 after a report was made to Northumbria Police. |
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Chief Superintendent Dave Pryer, from Northumbria Police's Operations Command, said the barrier did not cram supporters in and create an effective cattle herding. |
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