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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 1(215-6) |
During the reign of Æthelred 32 Malcolm 2 arrived with the entire military force of Scotland, devastated Northumbria and laid siege to Durham. At this time bishop Ealdhun 6 held the government there, for Waltheof 4, earl of Northumbria, had shut himself up in Bamburgh. His son Uchtred 2, a youth of great energy and well skilled in military affairs, collected a considerable number of the men of Northumbria and Yorkshire and defeated the Scots. The king himself and a few other escaped with difficulties. Uchtred 2 commanded to have the best-looking heads of the slain carried to Durham, washed by four women [Anonymi 10054] (to each of whom he gave a cow for her trouble) and placed around the city wall on stakes. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 1(215) |
Ealdhun 6 gave Uchtred 2 his daughter, named Ecgfritha 1, in marriage, along with certain vills of the church of St Cuthbert, namely Barmpton, Skirningham, Elton, Carlton, Aycliffe, and Hesleden. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 1(216) |
When king Æthelred 32 heard of Uchtred 2's victory over the Scots, he summoned the young man, which was still during his father Waltheof 4's lifetime, and granted him the earldom of his father, adding thereto the earldom of York. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 2(216) |
On his return from Æthelred 32's court, Uchtred 2 dismissed his first wife Ecgfritha 1 and her father Bishop Ealdhun 6 recovered the vills he had given Uchtred 2 for her. Uchtred 2 then married Sigen 1, daughter of Styrr 1, son of Ulf 4. The marriage was contracted on the understanding that Uchtred 2 would kill Styrr 1's enemy Thurbrand 2. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 2(216) |
When Uchtred 2 made additional progress in military affairs, king Æthelred 32 gave him his own daughter Ælfgifu 25 in marriage. Uchtred 2’s daughter with Ælfgifu 25, Ealdgyth 4, married Maldred 1, son of Crínán 1 the thegn, and they had their son Gospatric 1, who begat Dolfin 2, Waldeve 1, and Gospatric 2. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 3(217) |
[Ecgfritha 1], the daughter of bishop Ealdhun 6, whom earl Uchtred 2 sent away, became the wife of a certain thegn in Yorkshire, namely, Kilvert 1, son of Ligwulf 2; their daughter, Sigrida 1, became the wife of Arkil 1, son of Ecgfrith 16, and she bore him a son named Gospatric 3. Gospatric 3 took to wife Anonymous 10110, a daughter of Dolfin 3, son of
Torfin 1, and had a son, Gospatric 4, who of late ought to have fought with Waltheof 5, son of Eilsi 1. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 3(217) |
Kilvert 1 sent away the daughter of bishop Ealdhun 6, that is Ecgfritha 1, whereupon her father commanded her to return to Durham; and when she obeyed his commands, she brought back with her Barmpton, Skirningham, and Elton, which he had retained in her possession; and thus she restored to the church and the bishop the lands which properly belonged to them. After this she took the veil, which she kept faithfully until the day for her death. She lies buried in the churchyard of Durham, awaiting the day of judgment. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 4(217-8) |
Swein 1, the king of the Danes, having driven Æthelred 32, the king of the English, into Normandy, took possession of his realm; but upon his death, which occurred no long time afterwards, king Æthelred 32 returned to his own kingdom, having taken to wife Emma 2, the daughter of Richard 1, the duke of the Normans. Only a very short time had elapsed, when Cnut 3, the son of Swein 1, the king of the Danes, came to England, accompanied by a countless multitude, meaning to reign over it. He sent a message to Uchtred 2, asking him to join him, along with all the men whom he could muster, to render him assistance against king Æthelred 32, promising him that, in the event of his compliance, not only should he retain possession of the honour which he then held, but that something yet more extensive should be added. This earl was a man of considerable influence, for he had under him the counties of Northumberland and York. Uchtred 2, however, answered that he would do nothing of the sort, and declared that it would be the death of baseness were he to act thus against his lord and father-in-law. Thus Cnut 3 had no assistance from Uchtred 2. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 5(218) |
Upon the death of Æthelred 32, when Cnut 3 became possessed of the whole realm of England, he sent a message to the earl [Uchtred 2], commanding that he would come to him as his lord. Having received a safe-conduct for his journey there and home again, the earl went. Upon the day appointed, as he was going to the king to treat of peace, certain of the king's armed soldiers, who were hidden within the traverse of the house at Wiheal, behind a curtain which was there suspended, suddenly rushed out and killed the earl, and forty of the chiefest of his men [Anonymi 10056], who had entered along with him. This was planned by the treachery of a certain man, Thurbrand 2, surnamed Hold. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 6(218) |
Upon [Uchtred 2's] death his brother Eadwulf 47, surnamed Cudel, a lazy and cowardly fellow, succeed him in the earldom. Apprehensive that the Scots would revenge upon himself the slaughter which his brother had inflicted upon them, he yielded up to them the whole of Lothian, to soothe them and procure a peace; and hence it is that Lothian became added to the kingdom of Scotland. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 7(219) |
When Eadwulf 47 died, Ealdred 52 - whom Uchtred 2 had begotten by Ecgfritha 1, the daughter of bishop Ealdhun 6 - became possessed of the earldom of Northumberland only, and put to death Thurbrand 2, who had murdered his father. Carl 1, the son of Thurbrand 2, and earl Ealdred 52 were engaged in a mutual enmity, and were constantly laying traps the one for the other; but at last, by the agency of their friends, they were brought to an agreement; by whose instrumentality they also made satisfaction to each other. So firmly knit was their friendship, that, like sworn brethren, they meant to visit Rome together; but a long-continued tempest of the sea hindered them, and they were constrained to abandon their plan, and return homewards. Carl 1 received the earl into his house with great pomp and due respect; but, after having provided an entertainment for him, and when he was entirely thrown off his guard, he conducted him, as if out of compliment, into the wood called Risewude, and there he slew him, when he suspected no harm. A little stone cross marks, even to this day, the spot at which he was murdered. Earl Waltheof 2, the grandson of earl Ealdred 52 - for he was the son of his daughter [Ælfflæd 24], - some time afterwards avenged the death of his grandfather with a mighty slaughter, for which purpose he had collected a large assembly of young men. For when the sons of Carl 1 were feasting together in the house of their elder brother at Settrengton, not far from York, the party which had been despatched there for that purpose fell upon them unawares, and but the whole of them to death, with the sole exception of Cnut 4, whose life was spared from regard to his innate excellence of disposition. Sumerlede 1, who is alive at this present day, happened not to be there. Having massacred the sons [Thurbrand 3 and Gamel 2] and grandsons [Anonymi 10057] of Carl 1, they returned, carrying with them many and diverse spoils. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 8(220) |
Ælfflæd 24 claimed Barmpton, Skirningham, Elton, Carlton, Aycliffe, and Hesleden, which her husband Siweard 11 had given her, as belonging to her by hereditary right; and she gave her son Waltheof 2 the earldom of Northumberland, as it had been held by Waltheof 2's grandfather, earl Ealdred 52. |
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SymeonofDurham.DeObsessioneDunelmi 8(220) |
Upon the death of earl Siweard 11 and the countess Ælfflæd 24, the daughter of earl Ealdred 52, a disorder broke out, in consequence of which that land [i.e. Barmpton, Skirningham, Elton, Carlton, Aycliffe, and Hesleden] was devastated. After a long time, that Arkil 1, the son of Ecgfrith 16 (who had taken to wife Sigrida 1, the daughter of Kilvert 1 and of Ecgfritha 1, the daughter of bishop Ealdhun 6), seized those vacant lands for himself and occupied them. Upon the death of his wife Sigrida 1, he gave not only Hesleden to St Cuthbert’s, but also Aycliffe and Carlton, which are still in the possession of the church. Arkil 2 son of Fridegist 1, and earl Eadwulf 47, and Arkil 1 the son of Ecgfrith 16, these three had Sigrida 1 [to wife]. Afterwards, when William 1 came into England, this took Arkil 1 to flight, and he became an exile; and thus for the second time this land continued devastated. After these events, a certain thegn of Yorkshire, called Orm 4, the son of Gamal 2, took to wife Æthelthryth 10, one of the five daughters of earl Ealdred 52, and she bare to him a daughter named Ecgfritha 2, who, by Eilsi 1 of Tees, became the mother of Waltheof 5, and his two brothers Anonymi 10058, and Eda 1 their sister. And as that Ecgfritha 2 was descended from earl Ealdred 52 and the daughter of bishop Ealdhun 6, she – that is, Ecgfritha 2 - and her husband Eilsi 1, took possession of Barmpton and Skirningham by hereditary right. |
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