AthelingEdwin and Morcar rise in the Midlands
The brothers leave court after the promised marriage to William’s daughter fails to happen.
What the record says
William answered with a castle-building march through Warwick, Nottingham, York, Lincoln, Huntingdon, and Cambridge. The rising collapsed and the earls submitted again, but the north had learned the crown was contestable.
Certainty
| Fact | Value | Certainty |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 15 June 1068 | Exact |
| How sure we are | High | Of this record as a whole |
People
Related events
- Matilda is crowned queen
The Whitsun coronation at Westminster gives the conquest a queen and, before the year is out, an English-born son.
- Exeter submits after eighteen days
Harold’s mother Gytha and the western shires test the new king’s patience.
- The Danes and the north take York
Sweyn’s fleet in the Humber joins Edgar, Waltheof, and the Northumbrians against the Norman garrison.
- William sails for Normandy
The new king spends most of 1067 across the Channel, leaving Odo and fitzOsbern to govern.
- The harrying of the north
William winters in Yorkshire and destroys the means of life across the north.
Sources
Where this is recorded
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
- Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester
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