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The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish rebellions.
Pervasive rebellion and a Danish raid brought England’s William I north in the winter of 1069–70 to lead his army on a subjugating and devastating march from Yorkshire to the ...
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Oct 12, 2016 · The rebellious North had to be brought into line, which it was, ruthlessly, in the winter of 1069. The Battle of Hastings is the most famous event of the Norman Conquest, but it was only the opening engagement in the invaders' consolidation of power in England.
Oct 7, 2019 · England in revolt. The Conqueror had come north in the autumn of 1069 to deal with a rebellion, the most serious of his reign to date. Almost as soon as he had been crowned, William had faced uprisings from Englishmen determined to reverse the outcome of Hastings.
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Norman soldiers systematically killed rebels and destroyed food across Yorkshire – later known as ‘Harrying the North’. The resulting famine caused as many as 100 000 people to vanish from the records. There were no further uprisings in the North, but William was criticised for excessive brutality.
