- for over a century. Uhtred's
death by ********ination was
described in De
obsessione Dunelmi and has been
interpreted as the
beginning of a
blood feud. Lest...
- 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...
- of 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...
- 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...
- York, the
former kingdom of Deira. The twelfth-century
tract known as De
obsessione Dunelmi (The
siege of Durham, ****ociated with
Symeon of Durham) claims...
- De
Obsessione's Wiheal very closely.
Another possibility is
Worrall near Sheffield,
spelled Wihala and
Wihale in the
Domesday Book. If De
Obsessione is...
-
helped the
monks clear the site and
married the bishop's daughter. De
obsessione describes the site as "fortified by
nature but not
easily inhabitable"...
-
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...
-
Marriage and
Murder in Eleventh-Century Northumbria: A
Study of 'De
Obsessione Dunelmi' (York, 1992).
Richard Oram,
Domination and Lordship, Scotland...
-
century Maldred (Gaelic: Máel Doraid) of Allerdale,
referred to by De
obsessione Dunelmi as a son of 'thegn Crínán',
possibly Crínán,
abbot of Dunkeld...
