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	Battle of Alnwick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Alnwick is the name of two battles fought near the town of Alnwick in Northumberland:
		Battle of Alnwick (1093) in which Máel Coluim III of Scotland invaded England.
		Battle of Alnwick (1174) in which William I of Scotland invaded England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Alnwick (120 words)

	Alnwick Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alnwick was continually involved in disputes and successfully fought off raids from the Scottish King William the Lion in 1172 and again in 1174.
		John was captured in the Battle of Evesham in 1265 and was forced to relinquish his property at Alnwick and was deprived of the Barony.
		In 1460, Henry fought in the "Battle of Northampton where the Lancastrians were defeated and the King, Henry VI, was taken prisoner." Northern forces supported Queen Margaret and in 1461 the Queen’s victories at Wakefield and St. Alban were followed by her defeat at Mortimer’s Cross.
	www.hauntedcastlesandhotels.com /England/Alnwick.htm (6535 words)

	Timeline
		Battle of Manzikert (Byzantine Empire), crushing defeat of Byzantine army led by the Emperor Romanus IV Diogenes inflicted by the Seljouks of Alp Arslan
		Battle of Aljubarotta (Portugal), victory for John, master of Avis, establishing him as king of Portugal.
		Battle of Arbedo (Italy), defeat of an invading Swiss army by Milanese forces.
	www.historyofwar.org /periodframe.html (1192 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Alnwick Castle
		Alnwick castle is a Northumberland castle that has been under the control of the Percy Family (dukes of Northumberland) since 1309.
		Alnwick Castle was used as a location for Hogwarts in the Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
		Malcolm III, king of Scotland and his son Edward were both killed at the battle of Alnwick in Northumberland.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hpl946.htm (285 words)

	Newcastle Walks - Battles Page
		In 1464 at The Battle of Hedgley Moor near Wooler in Northumberland, Sir Ralph Percy a Lancastrian supporter, and son of The Duke of Northumberland was killed fighting a superior Yorkshire army.
		James refused to be drawn into battle at Alnwick forcing Howard to move to an area near to Flodden.
		Although the battle continued into the next day the death of their King and the mass slaughter of their fellows led the Scots to surrender.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /newcastlewalks/battles.htm (1761 words)

	Alnwick Castle - Some history and photographs
		In 1172 and again in 1174, Alnwick Castle was besieged by the Scottish king William the Lion, both times successfully defended by a garrison led by William de Vescy.
		Alnwick Castle was seized by the Crown and then granted to Lord Montagu.
		Today, Alnwick Castle is an impressive stately home, and relics of its initial military origins are clearly visible in the basic design, battlements, and massive fortitude of the structure.
	www.castlegatewebdesign.com /castles/Alnwick/INDEX.HTM (1544 words)

	Northumberland genealogy links
		When the battle was over nearly 10,000 of the Scots lay dead, among them King James IV himself together with 12 earls and 14 lords.
		It was during a siege of Alnwick Castle in 1174 that another Scottish King, William the Lion, was captured by the English.
		In 1513 James IV was killed in the during the Battle of Flodden near Branxton.
	www.genealogyinengland.com /Counties/northumberland.htm (451 words)

	Des and Sue's Home Page
		He fought and won the great battle of Alnwick, wherein the King of the Scots was captured.
		Alnwick was enfeoffed on Anthony Beke, Bishop of Durham, in trust for his illegitimate son William de Vescy.
		"Hotspur" was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury and Henry at the Battle of Bramham Moor.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /desheap/England/English051-100.htm (788 words)

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		Robert, Duke of Albany reigned as regent (1406-1420) 1411 Battle of Harlaw - Donald, Lord of the Isles, was defeated by an army of Lowlanders.
		Battle of Flodden (Branxton) - King James IV was defeated and killed, along with much of the Scottish aristocracy by the English (led by the 75 year old Earl of Surrey).
		Battle of Invercharron - Marquis of Montrose landed a small army in Caithness, in an attempt to overthrow the Covenanters and the Parliamentary rule of Oliver Cromwell.
	www.kinnaird.net /histdate.htm (5524 words)

	Touring Northumberland Battlefields on Britannia: Alnwick
		Having been treated extremely badly at the Court of King William Rufus when he travelled south to pay homage for his English lands, King Malcolm III of Scotland invaded England in the Winter of 1093 and pillaged the border country as far south as Alnwick.
		King Malcolm was slain in the battle his son, Edward, was mortally wounded.
		King William the Lion was captured by the English in Rotten Row where a memorial long commemorated the event.
	www.britannia.com /tours/batnorthumb/alnwick.html (215 words)

	Significant Dates in Scottish History
		The Battle of Clontarf, Regaining of the Hebrides and Northern Scotland
		Battle of Alnwick - King Malcolm III or Canmore is killed during battle on the 13 November.
		William the Lion Defeated in the Battle at Alnwick.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /legends/time.htm (2204 words)

	GENUKI: Notes on Northumberland Towns
		Alnwick, a market-town, under an urban district council, and the county town of Northumberland, England, in the Berwick-upon-Tweed parliamentary division of the county, on the Aln, 34 miles N. by W. of Newcastle by rail.
		While it was still incomplete, William the Lion was led within its walls after his capture at Alnwick; and within its great hall Baliol, on 26th December 1292, did homage for the crown of Scotland to Edward I. The area of the castle within its outer walls and fosse was 3 acres.
		After the battle of Marston Moor, it was besieged and taken by the Scots in October 1644, from which time it was held by the Parliament till the close of the war.
	www.genuki.bpears.org.uk /NBL/townsnbl.html (4624 words)

	ShawGen01
		ANGUS * was a Captain for Randolph at Battle Of Bannockburn 1314.
		James Shaw was killed at the Battle of Harlaw on 24 July, 1411, fighting on the side of Donald, 2nd Lord of the Isles.
		William Shaw Jr is believed to have fought in the Battle of the Boyne, under King William III, in General Ponsonby's Regiment in 1690.
	www.motherbedford.com /ShawGen01.htm (2408 words)

	Features - Notable Dates in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the Battle of the Standard a Scottish army led by David I was routed by an English army near Northallerton.
		Battle of Stirling Bridge where the Scots under the command of William Wallace and Andrew de Moray defeated a larger English force under John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and the Treasurer of England, Hugh de Cressingham.
		Battle of Dalry (or Dalrigh) where Robert I, The Bruce, was defeated by Lord of Lorne near Perthshire-Argyll border.
	www.scotsindependent.org /dates1-1.htm (4372 words)

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		Annals of Ulster 1058: "Lulach son of Gilla Comgain, over-king of Scotland, was killed in battle by Mael Coluim son of Donnchad.
		Donnchadha i cath." Annals of Ulster 1058: "Mac Bethad son of Finnlaech, over-king of Scotland, was killed by Mael Sechlainn son of Donnchad in battle.
		During the last of these invasions, while beseiging Alnwick Castle, he was killed by the forces of King William II Rufus.
	www.xs4all.nl /~teijodkp/NI11167.htm (548 words)

	Skyelander's COMPLETE Scottish History Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The ancient Gododdin, of Lothian, fought the Angles at the Battle of Catterick - 300 Din Eidyn (Edinburgh) horseman killed by the Angles.
		Battle of Falkirk(I), William Wallace and his army of 12,000 are defeated by Edward I of England and his army of 2,500 Heavy horse and about 20,000 foot.
		At the Battle of Solway Moss, the Scots are routed.
	hometown.aol.com /Skyelander/timeline.html (4170 words)

	Touring Northumberland Battlefields on Britannia: Brunanburgh
		The Celtic nations, inspired by the poetic 'Prophecy of Great Britain,' combined to exploit the situation and Olaf was able to raise a Northern Army of Vikings, Scots & Strathclyde Britons, probably with additional contingents from Man, Ireland & Powys.
		They clashed against the Saxons in a two-day battle, one of the fiercest ever fought in Britain, but victory was not to be theirs.
		The united force lost five kings and seven earls amongst its dead and the conflict finally ended all British hope of driving the Saxons from their shores.
	www.britannia.com /tours/batnorthumb/brunanburgh.html (193 words)

	History of Scotland - Edinburgh Castle
		The Northumbrians were expelled by Malcolm II at the Battle of Carham in 1018.
		November 1093, upon hearing of the death of her husband in battle at Alnwick.
		It was probably her son, King David, who built the tiny chapel on the highest point of the rock, which has somehow survived to become Edinburgh's oldest building.
	home.freeuk.net /easson1917/EdinburghCastle.html (1106 words)

	Descent Through Scottish Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On one invasion, he was killed in battle at Alnwick Castle in 1093.
		The 'separated fortune' of the brothers, to which Shakespeare referred, was to lead to separate interests and ultimately to their bitter enmity.
		Achieved victory at the Battle of Carham on the Tweed in 1018 and annexed Lothian to the Scottish kingdom.
	home.att.net /~a.junkins/scots.html (1512 words)

	William ``the Seemly'' Sinclair, First Baron of Roslin
		He routed the English army at the Battle of Allerton (now in Yorkshire) thereby avenging the death of his father.
		He may or may not have fought at the Battle of Hastings, for or against the same William, who became known as the Conqueror.
		Malcolm III was killed by Percy ("Hotspur") in 1093 at the Battle of Alnwick (pronounced 'Annick') by which time he had already knighted Henry, the son of William ' the Seemly' St Clair who must have married Agnus Dundar, the daughter of Patrick, the Earl of March, shortly after his arrival in Scotland.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /sinclair/who/seemly.html (805 words)

	Large Text Battlefields Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB
		Many of the battles were fought throughout Britain in places far away from the actual border but, not surprisingly, a good number were actually fought in Northumberland.
		A well interpreted site of the moonlit battle fought between Harry Hotspur and a Scots raiding party led by the Scottish Earl Douglas, written in the border ballads as the Battle of Chevy Chase.
		Douglas was killed but the Scots won the battle and Hotspur was held for ransom.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /VG/large_text_rbattlef.html (688 words)

	Battlefields Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 99)
		A raid by the Scots king Malcolm III, who had felt slighted by his treatment from William Rufus (son of William the Conquerer), led to his death at Alnwick at the hands of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland.
		A highly significant battle, won by the Scots, which established the River Tweed as the northern boundary of Northumberland (which had originally stretched as far north as Edinburgh).
		This was an English civil war between the supporters of the House of Lancaster (the red rose) and the House of York (the white rose) in their battle to provide the King of England.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /vg/rbattlef.html (749 words)

	Scottish History - 1 AD to 1400 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As the battle progressed, the Picts, feigning fear, turned heel and retreated back over the hill, chased by the Northumbrians.
		This Unity continues with a battle later that year at Athelstaneford in Lothian, where the Albannach defeat the Angles.
		Rout of Scottish army in the Battle of Dunbar by Edward 1, King of England, after John Balliol, King of Scots, had renounced his allegiance to England.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com /Celtic_Solidarity/prehist3.htm (2220 words)

	magoo.com: Scots Kings—Including Kings of Dal Riada who Reigned from Ireland by Hugh McGough
		The Annals of the Four Masters record: "M624.6 The battle of Ard Corainn was gained by Connadh Cerr, Lord of Dal Riada, where Fiachna, son of Deman, King of Ulidia, was slain." [605] Ciniath, son of Lutrin, became a king of the Picts about 630.
		In 637 in the battle of Magh Rath, Domhnall, Irish Kings #146, defeated Congal, king of the Dal nAraide and Ulster, who was the nephew and agent of King Domnal Brecc of Dal Riada, and thus ended the control of the kings of Dal Riada over their Irish possessions, including the ability to collect taxes.
		U1130.4 A battle between the men of Scotland and the men of Moray in which four thousand of the men of Moray fell with their king, Aengus son of the daughter of Lulach; a thousand, or a hundred, which is more accurate, of the men of Scotland fell in a counter-attack.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/scotskings.html (9388 words)

	HistoryMole: The Crusades (1095-1314)
		The crusades were an early battle for control of the region of the middle-east known as the 'Holy Land'.
		30 Aug 1221 CE Battle of Mansurah when the crusaders surrendered in Egypt (Templars led the rearguard action) subsequently there was a peace treaty.
		Hermann von Salza and the Tutonic Knights were at the Battle of Cortenuova.
	www.historymole.com /cgi-bin/main/results.pl?type=theme&theme=Crusades (2462 words)

	Kings of Canmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He won a battle against the English at Clitheroe in June 1138 but was defeated in August 1138 near Northallerton in North Yorkshire at the Battle of the Standard.
		Although defeated he kept much of the land in Northern England under Scottish control as he was the Earl of Cumbria in north west England and the Earl of Northumbria (which he passed to his son Henry) in the north east of England.
		He lost the Battle of Alnwick in 1174 and William was captured by English forces and sent to Normandy (France) for imprisonment.
	www.fife-education.org.uk /socsub/SocialSubjects/Scottish_History/Royalty/EarlyKings/Facts/canmorekings.htm (2639 words)

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		Malcolm III invades England and is defeated at the Battle of Alne.
		Duncan II, son of Malcolm III, defeated Bane in battle but is in turn defeated in battle by Bane ad his brother, Edward in the Battle of Mondynes.
		1174 William, the Lion, King of Scotlandwas defeated and captured in battle against the English of Henry II at the Battle of Alnwick.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/CeltChron2.htm (2365 words)

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		Later in 1141, she was obliged to release him after losing another battle to his supporters, and he regained the throne, holding it until his death in 1154.
		Don John of Austria, illegitimate brother of Phillip II of Spain, commanding a joint papal and Venetian fleet defeated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, near the Greek seaport on the strait connecting the Gulfs of Corinth and Patras.
		Frederick II of Prussia defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Freiburg.
	www.cascom.army.mil /History/historyadd.asp (7738 words)

	Simply Battles quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I was the site of the last pitched battle fought on the British mainland on 16 16, 1746.
		Often called the Battle of Nations, in Oct 1813, where did Napolean suffer a serious defeat at the hands of the Allies?
		In May 878, Alfred the Great, defeated the a Danish army under Guthrum, securing Wessex and the partition of England under Danelaw.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=28775 (250 words)

	Edinburgh Castle - St. Margaret's Chapel - Edinburgh Hotel Scotland - Accommodation, Bed and Breakfast and other ...
		Margaret managed to persuade the Church to adopt many customs including the Roman celebration of Mass (on one occasion she is said to have argued for 3 whole days against representatives of the Scottish clergy before winning the argument.
		After leading a pious life Margaret expired upon hearing news that her husband, together with her eldest son, had died at the Battle of Alnwick, 1093.
		The news was given by her third son Edgar and, although the news was tragic she said a prayer of thanks that "...
	www.edinburghhotelscotland.co.uk /edinburgh-st-margarets-chapel.htm (549 words)

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