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	Morcar - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Morcar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Earl of Northumbria, brother of Edwin, Earl of Mercia.
		He became Earl of Northumbria in 1065, on the expulsion of Tostig.
		Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Morcar (189 words)

	Morcar, Earl Of Northumbria (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morcar and Edwin resisted and inflicted heavy losses on the 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.
		Though they were pardoned, Edwin perished in attempting to raise a Welsh rebellion and, in 1071, Morcar joined the desperate rebellion led by Hereward the Wake against William the Conqueror at the Isle of Ely.
	www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Morcar,_Earl_of_Northumbria (404 words)

	The Story of Edgar Atheling
		Earl Godwin died in April 1053, and the Earldom of Wessex passed to Harold, who increasingly exerted the same influence as his father - in fact, the government of the country was largely in his hands.
		Earl Edwin and Earl Morcar had arrived with their depleted forces, and they promised their support, but did little to implement it.
		The Earls Edwin and Morcar also left the English Court for the north, but their threatened campaign in the northern counties, together with Edgar and King Malcolm, came to nothing when King William marched with an army as far as York.
	www.boldbelvoir.org.uk /ayling/edgar.htm (3868 words)

	northumbria
		It was not until the reign of William the Conqueror that Northumbria became an integral part of England.
		Edwin (in Latin, Aeduinus) (585?-633), Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria (616-33), a territory in northern England and southern Scotland.
		After his death the kingdom of Northumbria fell apart, and Christianity was for a time extinguished in northern England.
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/northumbria.htm (432 words)

	BATTLEOFHASTING3RDPAGE
		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.
		He put his best men in the center of the line, where he was stationed, and on the left side of the line, where they stretched out to the eastern bank of the Ouse.
		Then he took the men who were under his personal command in the center, quickly wheeled them to the right and struck the advancing fyrdmen in their left flank.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/jimaniinterprises/BATTLEOFHASTING3RDPAGE.html (1069 words)

	Norman Conquest
		Godwin, earl - practically sovereign - of the West Saxons (q.v.), having married into Canute's family and surrounded himself with landed kinsmen, was the most powerful person in the realm; in 1042 he acted as kingmaker, assisting Edward the Confessor, of the Anglo-Saxon line, to the throne.
		The Saxon claimant to the throne was Edgar Aetheling, grandson of King Edmund Ironside, whose sister, Margaret, was married to Malcolm III of Scotland.
		Morcar joined Hereward the Wake, and when the latter's last stand against the Normans ended on the Isle of Ely in 1071 Williams's rule was finally established in England.
	footprints.org /5-001001.htm (1482 words)

	The Domesday Book Online - Landowners M-O
		Mercia, Edwin, Earl of - Son of Earl
		Northumbria, Morcar, Earl of - Son of Earl
		Became Earl, 1055, deposed 1065 in favour of Morcar.
	www.domesdaybook.co.uk /landownersm-o.html (339 words)

	MORCAR
		1066), was the son of Earl Ælfgar, 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.
		They were pardoned, but Morcar afterwards joined Hereward in the Isle of Ely (1071), while Edwin perished in attempting to raise a Welsh rebellion.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/MORCAR (208 words)

	Vikings and Feudal Europe 900-1095 by Sanderson Beck
		In 1014 a Viking coalition led by Dublin king Sigtrygg and Orkney earl Sigurd was defeated in the battle at Clontarf.
		Earl Asbjorn told the king he only pretended to join the farmers, and Knut asked for reconciliation; but Asbjorn was spying on his forces and told the farmers that Knut threatened them.
		According to the saga Earl Asbjorn was killed by rats, and Thord died in a horse accident.
	www.san.beck.org /AB17-FeudalEurope.html (23987 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With M
		Their son Henry, earl of Huntingdon was the father of Malcolm IV and William the Lyon, both kings of the Scots.
		At the battle of Gate Fulford in September of 1066 Morcar was beaten by the invading Harold Hardrada.
		Lead by Richard Earl of Cambridge, Henry's cousin, a plot to assasinate the King and replace him with the Earl of March who was the true heir to the throne was hatched.
	www.timeref.com /hprm.htm (3130 words)

	Ancestors of Tim Farr - aqwg234
		Leofric III Earl of MERCIA on by 1030.
		It is undoubted that Godiva married Leofric, Earl of Mercia.
		Leofric III Earl of MERCIA was born 14 May 968 and died 31 Aug 1057.
	www.geocities.com /dustyhills/aqwg234.htm (1593 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.
		He also retained those lands he had held as Earl of Huntingdon, though it would appear he transferred the ownership of his personal holdings in the area to Judith, in the English manner of providing a wife with land of her own.
		It was in 1075 that the half English - half Breton Ralf, Earl of East Anglia, married the sister of Roger Earl of Herefordshire and, at the wedding feast, began weaving the sticky web of intrigue that was to ensnare and prove fatal to Waltheof.
	www.britannia.com /history/articles/waltheof.html (2259 words)

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	1066 AND ALL THAT - AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE FALL OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Earl Edwin of Mercia and Earl Gyrth of East Anglia, the Kings brother, meet at Coventry and publicly reaffirm that the Kingdom of England is united behind King Harold.
		Earl Cnut of Denmark (the son of King Swein) lands in East Anglia with a large army as an ally of Flanders.
		Meanwhile, Robert, the Flemish Earl of East Anglia, is attending King Harold’s court at Oxford and is wounded in an assassination attempt.
	www.abingdonwargames.org.uk /Campaigns/1066/Timeline[2]..htm (2888 words)

	Hoveden14
		On this, the earl and his men, being greatly enraged, slaughtered a great number of men and women with their arms, and trod down children and infants under their horses’ hoofs.
		On learning this, earl Godwin returned to the Isle of Wight, and sailed near the shore until his sons Harold and Leofwin came with their fleet; and when they had met they desisted from plunder and rapine, only, when necessity demanded it, taking provisions for their troops.
		When this was reported to earl Tosti, taking with him some of the mariners who were well inclined and some who were ill-wishers to him, he retreated, directing his course to Lindesey, where he burned a great number of towns, and put many men to death.
	www.elfinspell.com /Hoveden14.html (4909 words)

	Battle of Fulford, 20 September 1066
		Edward the Confessor was no fan of the Godwin family, and accepted Morcar as the new earl of Northumbria.
		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 (860 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With T
		Tostig was the son of Godwine, Earl of Wessex and brother of Harold II, King of England.
		Edmund the Earl of Richmond died in captivity in Carmathen Castle.
		Edmund became the Earl of Richmond and Jasper became the Earl of Pembroke.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprt.htm (1396 words)

	G. A. Henty : Wulf the Saxon : Chapter XII. Edith.
		These were marriages contracted between men of high rank and ladies of inferior position, and while they lasted were regarded as being lawful; but they could be, and frequently were, broken off, when for politic or other reasons the prince or noble had to seek another alliance.
		His rise, however, to the position of the foremost man in England, and the prospect of his accession to the throne, rendered it probable that ere long he would be obliged to marry one who would strengthen his position, and would from her high birth be fitted to share the crown with him.
		Morcar accepted the earldom of Northumbria, hurried to York, and placing himself at the head of the Northumbrian forces, marched south, being joined on the way by the men of Lincoln, Nottingham, and Derby, in all of which shires the Danish element was very strong.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2235/sec.13 (4816 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Edwin MERCIA ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL Decendants
		Edwin and Morcar went about trying to persuade people that one or the other of them should be king...England was conquered, not by the superior force and genius of the Norman, but by the failure of her own men in a great crisis of her history...
		Particularly mightthis be the case if he had learned that Edwin and Morcar, with their army, had abandoned the new king and retired northward, as some of the best of modern scholars have believed, though upon what is certainly not the best of evidence.
		If the earls had not abandoned London, this was still the best position, cutting them off from their own country and the city from the region whence reinforcements must come if they came at all.
	www.geneal.net /2823.htm (1393 words)

	Home of Tostig
		Born the Son of Earl Godwin of Wessex, and brother of Harold and Gyrth.
		After the death of Earl Siward, Tostig was made the Earl of Northumbria by Edward the Confessor.
		The hostility in Northumbria at the time warranted his men to travel in groups of twenty in order to protect them selves from attackers.
	www.panhistoria.com /Stacks/Novels/Character_Homes/home.php?CharID=6031 (478 words)

	Foreign Language for the Modern Englishman \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Harold arrived in London on 5th October and there he waited for the local fyrd to assemble and for the troops of the Earl of Mercia and the Earl of Northumbria to arrive from the north.
		The leaders of the fyrd, the thegns had swords and javelins but the rest of the men were inexperienced fighters and carried weapons such as iron-studded clubs, scythes, slings, reaping-hooks and hay-forks.
		However, those powerful lords, such as Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, who had not fought him, were allowed to redeem their lands back as a grant from William.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2004/5113.htm (2861 words)

	Tostig Godwinson: The Path to Hastings, 1066. Part 4
		Born around the year 1025, Tostig was the third son of the power Earl Godwin and the younger brother to the future King Harold.
		The most important of these was Northumbria, which at the time was a lawless domain, ruled by bandits and robbers.
		They chose Morcar, the son of a house opposed to the Godwinsons, as their new leader.
	britishhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/tostig_godwinson (630 words)

	Third Battle of 1066
		Mercia and Northumbria, constituting between them the whole of the midlands and north country, were united under two brothers, Earl Edwin of Mercia and Earl Morcar of Northumbria.
		Nearly half the war-making potential of the Kingdom lay in the fyrd levies and housecarles under the command of Earls Edwin and Morcar, whose base was at York.
		His last command was to Morcar and Edwin, whom he urged to raise a new levy from Mercia and Northumbria, and hasten to his aid.
	www.battleoffulford.org.uk /a_third_battle.htm (2789 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With H
		English forces lead by Earl Edwin and Earl Morcar battled with Harold Hardrada at Gate Fulford, but the English were severly beaten.
		William Herbert supported King Edward IV during the War of the Roses and was to become Earl of Pembroke in recognition of his achievements.
		The rebels Hereward the Wake and Morcar on the Isle of Ely were attacked and defeated by William the Conqueror.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprh.htm (1656 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1066 & Others
		English troops under Morcar, Earl of Northumbria, and Edwin, Earl of Mercia, attempted at Fulford Gate, a mile south of York, to stop the Viking invasion army under Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, and Tostig, the renegade brother of King Harold II Godwinson of England, which had previously burnt Scarborough.
		The two Earls were short of men - the local population had a great deal of Viking blood and heritage, and were not keen to fight.
		The Yorkshiremen were heavily defeated, and the main English army broke up as the earls of the northern Marches headed home to protect their lands.
	www.fmft.net /archives/001202.html (681 words)

	Hereward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hereward was the son of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia and his mother was Lady Godiva.
		He was the uncle of Edwin and Morcar who were the last surviving members of the English royal house and he was born at Bourne in Lincolnshire where the Domesday Book confirms that he held lands there and also in Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
		Hereward and his raiders were such a threat to William's control of the area that William made a treaty with the Danish king, Sweyn, who as a result withdrew his raiders from Ely.
	www.webspinners.org.uk /weddingtoncastle2/new_page_6.htm (753 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - The Legacy of Durham - County of Durham, 1066 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morcar still bore the weary look he’d worn ever since his defeat by the Norsemen at Fulford, but today he looked even wearier to Maelwine, the youngest and newest member of his court.
		I changed some of the titles to better reflect the time: Morcar was Earl of Northumbria, and Durham probably would have been a Barony (in actuality, it was later made a bishopric, but this is speculative and has no bearing on actuality).
		Morcar, in his relief at being allowed to remain, had granted Maelwine some additions to his demesne in the rather unproductive far north, retaining the choicer counties of York and Westmorland in his own.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=246795 (6789 words)

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