AthelingRobert de Comines is burned at Durham
The new Norman earl of Northumbria dies with his men in a single night.
What the record says
Comines ignored warnings and entered Durham with several hundred men. The Northumbrians killed them and burned the bishop’s house over the earl. Edgar was proclaimed at York within weeks.
Certainty
| Fact | Value | Certainty |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 28 January 1069 | Exact |
| How sure we are | High | Of this record as a whole |
People
Related events
- Edgar flees to Scotland
The ætheling leaves court with his mother and sisters and finds shelter with Malcolm.
- 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.
- William is crowned at Westminster
Ealdred of York crowns the Conqueror on Christmas Day while his guards set fire to the houses outside.
- Edgar submits at Berkhamsted
William crosses the Thames at Wallingford and the English leaders come out to meet him.
Sources
Where this is recorded
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
- Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum, in Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, ed. Thomas Arnold, Rolls Series, 1882 to 1885
- Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester
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