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	Earl Morcar - LoveToKnow 1911
		EARL MORCAR V. 1066), son of Earl iElfgar, brother of Edwin, earl of the Mercians.
		They assisted the Northumbrians to expel Tostig, of the house of Godwin, in 1065 and Morcar was chosen earl by the rebels.
		Morcar died in prison; at what date is unknown.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earl_Morcar (158 words)

	Morcar
		Morcar was the son of Elfgar, the Earl of Mercia.
		Tostig was banished from the country and Morcar, Harold's brother-in-law, became the new Earl of Northumbria.
		Morcar was taken to Normandy where he was imprisoned until the death of William in September, 1087.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORmorcar.htm (394 words)

	Morcar of Northumbria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morcar and Ealdgyth produced a daughter in 986, Agatha Morcarson, who later married King Edmund II and became Queen of England.
		Morcar and Edwin resisted and inflicted heavy losses on invaders; however, they were defeated at the Battle of Fulford.
		In September, when Morcar became aware that Duke William II of Normandy intended to invade England to claim the throne from King Harold II, Morcar swore fealty William.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morcar (350 words)

	Corvey \| Corinne template
		We later learn that the reason Lord Morcar keeps vigil outside King William’s castle is not so that he can inform his allies of the usurper’s movements, but because he is in love with the King’s daughter Agatha.
		Morcar penetrates the castle and is able to converse with the princess who is obviously in love with him also.
		Elsewhere, Morcar is told of the execution of his friends and allies.
	www.shu.ac.uk /schools/cs/corvey/corinne/1pardoe/pardoelordmorcar.htm (975 words)

	History Teachers' Discussion Forum > Edwin and Morcar
		After the Battle of Hastings, the 'leadership' of the resistance to William by default actually fell to Edgar the Aetheling with the Earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria.
		It it thought that Edwin and Morcar joined up with Hereward in his campain to defend Ely (where I'm actually currently typing from) but this is much more folklore dreamed up by those wishing to identify with a band of brave rebels rising up against an invading overlord.
		It is most probable that Edwin died and Morcar was captured by the Normans at Ely.
	www.schoolhistory.co.uk /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t7198.html (517 words)

	Battle of Fulford, 20 September 1066
		He appears to have given Morcar a guarantee that this would not happen, and soon after this Harold married Edith, the sister of Morcar and Edwin.
		Any danger that Morcar and Edwin would side with Harald Hardrada was removed by the presence of Tostig in his army.
		Morcar and Edwin were forced to withdrawn, and did not play any part in the remaining fighting of the year.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_fulford.html (831 words)

	Anglo saxon chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Morcar had arrayed the host with the strongest retainers about him in the forefront and midst of the line.
		Morcar did the same and charged into the fray into the heart of the foe.
		Perhaps Morcar should have pursued Hardrada, but he stayed awhile to tend his wounded and the brave souls that had lost their lives.
	dux.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /asc.htm (1933 words)

	The Battle of Fulford
		Morcar was able to deploy his small army on the ground of his choosing.
		Morcar's left pushed Harald's troops back along the track and into the marsh but progress was slow as the troops waded through the reeds.
		Some, possibly including Morcar, were first cut off from the troops defending the Beck and then were forced back down the road to York to make their escape although some sagas say that Morcar perished.
	www.battleoffulford.org.uk /a_battle.htm (2403 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Imperial Wall: A Northumbrian AAR
		Morcar was not yet drunk enough not to wonder loudly where the fucking guards were.
		Morcar tried to summon some authority by standing up, but his legs failed him and he collapsed back in his seat.
		Morcar's head is turned, he considers internal promotion, decides he'd rather have a younger wife with a better spread of talent (so to speak) and one who'll bring a dowry, more or less essential if we're going to get the regional economy running before 1100.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=155817 (9981 words)

	Edward gathered his own supporters, Eustace, Archbishop Robert, his nephew Ralph the half Norman (later know as 'the ...
		Although their earl, Morcar, had been at the Witan that had offered him the kingship, the thegns may have wondered if Harold would bring his brother Tosti back and restore the earldom to him.
		By the time Edwin and Morcar reached London with such men as they had managed to gather, Harold and the flower of England's thegndom had been slain on Senlac ridge outside Hastings and William was marching to London to enforce his claim on the vacant throne.
		Edgar Æþeling, Edwin and Morcar were all young and lacking experience and Harold's family was currently leaderless, with his sons by Edith Swan Neck even younger than Edgar and the surviving earls.
	geoffboxell.tripod.com /edwin.html (4138 words)

	The Wold Newton Universe - Articles, Part V
		Because her family was financially destitute, Morcar (born in 1815) had been forced to seek work as a servant.
		The illegitimate son of Sir William and Morcar was born in 1835.
		Seeking to maintain the outward appearance of respectability, Morcar claimed to be the wife of an Irish sea captain.
	www.pjfarmer.com /woldnewton/Articles5.htm (16238 words)

	hereward and the Barony of Bourne
		Hereward apparently only held part of Laughton and its soke in his own right; otherwise his most substantial holdings were parcels of land held of the abbeys of Crowland and Peterborough in Rippingale and Witham on the Hill, Barholm and Stowe respectively.
		Round argued that the elevation of his status and his association with Bourne was a later invention prompted by the subsequent tenure of all of Hereward's lands by the lords of Bourne.
		He evidently only held these lands in some kind of temporary capacity, either as the earl or the earl's representative - he may have held Lincolnshire as part of his earldom of Northumbria or alternatively it may have been constituted as a separate earldom which was held by his brother Earl Edwin.
	www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk /articles/hereward.htm (3853 words)

	Britannia History: Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland
		For a variety of reasons, Northumberland revolted against Tostig in 1065 and the thegns demanded that the earldom be given to Morcar, brother of the Earl of Mercia, Edwin.
		Waltheof was one of the hostages, including Edwin, Morcar and Archbishop of Canterbury Stigand, taken to Normandy in 1067 and kept there till mid 1068.
		The North of England at this time was still out of William’s grasp, though he had appointed Copsi, a henchman of Tostig Godwinson, to rule in the absence of the hostage, Morcar.
	www.britannia.com /history/articles/waltheof.html (2274 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Morcar (lived 1065-1087)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Morcar (lived 1065-1087)@ HighBeam Research
		He became Earl of Northumbria in 1065, on the expulsion of Tostig.
		When Tostig invaded England from Norway in 1066 Edwin and Morcar resisted him.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100159965&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (165 words)

	The Battle of Hastings - The Battle of Fulford Gate
		The Earl of Northumbria, Morcar, as well as his brother, Edwin, Earl of Mercia, were both present in York.
		Fortunately, Morcar reached Fulford Gate a few hours ahead of Harald and Tostig, and was able to deploy his small army to his liking.
		Morcar formed a line whose right flank was anchored on the eastern bank of the Ouse, then stretched across the Fulford meadows to the track, and finally to a ditch on the other side of the track where the ground became so swampy that it was unsafe for troops to maneuver.
	www.members.tripod.com /~Battle_of_Hastings/Fulford.htm (1164 words)

	Literature compared
		Morcar's brother had had his standard brought along the river, downwards against the army of Harald, but when the King hardened his attack, the Jarl and his men fled along the river.
		Earl Morcar was probably not killed as Simeon of Durham records him as a fellow resistance leader working with Hereward to resist the Normans.
		Earl Morcar was probably not killed as Symeon of Durham also records him as a fellow resistance leader working with Hereward to resist the Normans and in 1068 the earls submitting to William.
	www.battleoffulford.org.uk /li_sagas_compared.htm (1508 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Phyllis Bentley und Rise Of Henry Morcar
		The Rise of Henry Morcar - The Second Volume of a Trilogy - Unabridged
		The second volume of the enthralling trilogy that began with Inheritance - The basis of the Granada Television serial.
		The Rise Of Henry Morcar (Second in Trilogy) (ISBN: 0330021516)
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Phyllis+Bentley+/tn/+Rise+Of+Henry+Morcar (625 words)

	Harold : The Last Of The Saxon Kings — Complete by Baron Lytton, Edward Bulwer eBook by BookRags
		Morcar’s words were carried into the host by his captains and warbodes, and the shout changed from alarm into joy.
		Morcar stepped down from the mound on which he stood, and the brothers embraced amidst the halloos of the forces.
		So Morcar reached his hand to Caradoc, stepson to his sister Aldyth, and kissed him on the brow, as was the wont of our fathers.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/7684/254.html (459 words)

	Gwerin Y Gwyr - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
		Teenagers were appointed to the major parts of Tostig's earldom: York went to Morcar, the brother of earl Edwin of Mercia, and Northampton to Waltheof, son of the previous Earl of Northumbria, Siward the Dane.
		Eadwin and Morcar held the east coast from him: and there being no decent anchorage in Northumberland, he ended up in Scotland, where his enemy and (at the same time) sworn ally and brother King Malcolm III granted him protection.
		Edwin and Morcar had gathered forces by this time: and word had gone to the king - who with such troops as were available was still heading north when the Norse and the earls' army met at Fulford on Wednesday 20 September.
	www.gwerin.org.uk /articles/stamford_bridge.htm (667 words)

	HeroQuest FAQ page
		Morcar seeks to overcome me with is magic.
		Morcar as assembled for of the Empire's most deadly Sorcerers with only one aim: to destroy the Emperor's greatest Heroes.
		Wizards Of Morcar was released in many countries and languages.
	www.geocities.com /baloban/WizardsOfMorcar.htm (188 words)

	Maltbyonline >> The Growth of a Township - Chapter Three - The Normans - Masters of the World
		Morcar of Northumberland, his brother Earl Edwin and Siward of Hooton Levitt all figure in the power struggle of 1066, which ended in the conquest of England.
		The defence was in the hands of his henchmen, Morcar and Edwin of Maltby and Laughton.
		Compared with the powerful Earl Morcar and Earl Edwin he was small fry, a local tenant of these great Saxons.
	www.maltbyonline.co.uk /chapter3.shtml (1149 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With M
		Morcar (Morkere) took part in the 1065 rebellion against the then Earl of Northumbria, Tostig and forced Tostig out.
		At the battle of Gate Fulford in September of 1066 Morcar was beaten by the invading Harold Hardrada.
		The rebels Hereward the Wake and Morcar on the Isle of Ely were attacked and defeated by William the Conqueror.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprm.htm (3069 words)

	MORCAR, EARL (fl. ro66) - Online Information article about MORCAR, EARL (fl. ro66)
		Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
		Godwin, in 1065 and Morcar was chosen earl by the rebels.
		They were pardoned, but Morcar afterwards joined See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOL_MOS/MORCAR_EARL_fl_ro66_.html (204 words)

	Resistance and Retribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Simeon of Durham says that Morcar, "being burdened with other weighty matters" handed control of the area of Northumbria north of the Tyne to one Osulf.
		When Morcar was taken hostage, William replaced Osulf with Copsi, "who was on the side of earl Tostig".
		After this Edwin, Morcar, and their men, unwilling to face the doubtful issue of a battle, and wisely preferring peace to war, sought the king's pardon and obtained it at least to outward appearance.
	www.stephen.j.murray.btinternet.co.uk /william.htm (2823 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Whereas in his previous confrontation with Morcar, Mentor had been aided by a group of good guys, Rogar the Barbarian, Durgin the Dwarf, Ladril the Elven mage and Telor the Wizard, he needs a new set of heroes.
		In the computer version of Hero Quest, Morcar and his underlings are controlled by the computer.
		After the heroes have completed their moves, Morcar takes his move and can attack you if he has a monster near enough, combat being decided as before.
	www.syntax2000.co.uk /issues/15/hero.rev.txt (725 words)

	Edward gathered his own supporters, Eustace, Archbishop Robert, his nephew Ralph the half Norman (later know as 'the ...
		Together with his brother, Edwin, Morcar led a land force, which expelled Tosti.
		Although both Edwin and Morcar escaped with their lives, few of their army did.
		Edwin and Morcar were joined by many men of Northumberland and Mercia.
	www.members.tripod.com /~GeoffBoxell/edwin.html (4138 words)

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		With Tostig defeats Edwin, Earl of Mercia, & Morcar, Earl of Northumbria
		Hadraada & Tostig defeat Edwin Earl of Mercia, & Morcar Earl of Northumbria
		Death of Morcar, killed during the siege of York
	badley.info /history/1066.year.html (1610 words)

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	www.morcar.co.uk (106 words)

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