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Harrying of the North: Edgar Ætheling, William the Conqueror, and the War That Devastated Medieval Northumbria

Harrying of the North: Edgar Ætheling, William the Conqueror, and the War That Devastated Medieval Northumbria

Judge, Ben

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Series: Lives That Shaped History (Biography), Book 9

General Military HistoryBritish HistoryHistoriography

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ISBN13: 9798187089260
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the winter of 1066, a fourteen-year-old boy with the blood of Alfred the Great in his veins was briefly declared king of England. He had no army, no lands, and no realistic way to defend his claim against the man who had just won a crown at Hastings.

He did not disappear quietly.

Over the following years, Edgar theling built one of the most remarkable coalitions of the entire Norman conquest, drawing in the kings of Scotland and Denmark, disaffected Saxon earls, and a population across northern England willing to rise up again and again against William the Conqueror's rule. Their resistance would deliver Norman forces their single greatest defeat of the conquest, and provoke, in response, a campaign of destruction so severe that even William's own admiring chroniclers could not defend it.

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