De obsessione Dunelmi ("On the siege of Durham") is an historical work written in the north of England during the Anglo-Norman period, almost certainly...
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over a century. Uhtred's death by assassination was described in De obsessione Dunelmi and has been interpreted as the beginning of a blood feud. Lest...
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King Æthelred II. This follows the ancestry given in the earlier De obsessione Dunelmi, in which Gospatric's father is named as Maldred, son of Crinan...
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Crínán of Dunkeld (redirect from Crinan the Thane de Mormaer)
Moddan, Earl of Caithness, and a son Maldred. The latter is said by De obsessione Dunelmi to have been son of Crinan, tein (thegn Crínán). He was identified...
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in the Battle of Carham. In one twelfth-century Durham source, De obsessione Dunelmi, Ealdulf is described as "a very lazy and cowardly man", who ceded...
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Reign of Æthelred II.34-5. John of Worcester, Chronicon, AD 1009. De Obsessione Dunelmi § 2; Handbook of British Chronology, p. 27. Handbook of British...
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the former kingdom of Deira. The twelfth-century tract known as De obsessione Dunelmi (The siege of Durham, associated with Symeon of Durham) claims that...
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are the Historia Regum, the Libellus de exordio, De primo Saxonum adventu and De obsessione Dunelmi; the Libellus de exordio is likely to have been "authored"...
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According to the late-11th- or early-12th-century Durham tract called De obsessione Dunelmi, Thurbrand was the "leading enemy" of Styr son of Ulf. The same...
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century Maldred (Gaelic: Máel Doraid) of Allerdale, referred to by De obsessione Dunelmi as a son of 'thegn Crínán', possibly Crínán, abbot of Dunkeld, which...
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govern northern and southern Northumbria together. The text known as De obsessione Dunelmi ("On the siege of Durham"), relates that Uhtred took power after...
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Marriage and Murder in Eleventh-Century Northumbria: A Study of 'De Obsessione Dunelmi' (York, 1992). Richard Oram, Domination and Lordship, Scotland 1070-1230...
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that Duncan's theory is supported by the twelfth-century tract De obsessione Dunelmi, where the death of Uhtred is described; although the killing of...
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and his Scottish counterpart. Also in 1006, the eleventh-century De obsessione Dunelmi records that the Scots penetrated into Northumbria, and besieged...
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archiepiscopis Eboraci, ascribed to Symeon of Durham. 6 50r–51v De obsessione Dunelmi et de Probitate Ucthredi Comitis. 7 51v–129v Historia regum. 8 129v–147r...
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