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Thurbrand (Old English:
Þūrbrand; fl. 1010s; died c. 1024),
nicknamed "the Hold", was a
Northumbrian magnate in the
early 11th century.
Perhaps based in...
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Ealdred subsequently avenged his
father by
killing Thurbrand, but
Ealdred in turn was
killed by
Thurbrand's son, Carl. Ealdred's
vengeance had to wait until...
- in the mid 1020s
Ealdred killed Thurbrand in
revenge for his father's death. In 1038
Ealdred was
murdered by
Thurbrand's son.
There were
several other revenge...
- half-brother Ealdred, who was
murdered by the son of
Thurbrand the Hold in a
bloodfeud started when
Thurbrand murdered Uhtred. The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle ****erts...
- bloodfeud. Eadulf's successor, Ealdred,
kills Thurbrand and
finds himself in
conflict with
Thurbrand's son, Carl,
until they
agree to go to Rome together...
- had many
enemies in the north.
Amongst them was the
family of
Thurbrand the Hold;
Thurbrand had
killed Waltheof's great-grandfather,
Uhtred the Bold, starting...
- of
independence from the ealdormen. One such
example was the
magnate Thurbrand, a hold in Yorkshire,
probably based in Holderness,
whose family were...
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submit himself to Cnut, who
seems to have sent a
Northumbrian rival,
Thurbrand the Hold, to m****acre
Uhtred and his retinue. Eiríkr Hákonarson, most...
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Worcester and
Symeon of Durham, both name the
agent of Uhtred's
death as one
Thurbrand the Hold. John of
Worcester states that Cnut
feared that
Eadric would...
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surrendered to the Danes, but at the
instigation of Cnut he was
murdered by
Thurbrand the Hold due to a vendetta.
Edmund then
returned south to London, where...
