Eadred imprisoned Archbishop Wulfstan of York at an unidentified place called Iudanbyrig, apparently on suspicion of collaboration with the Norse kings of York. Wulfstan had been the leading ecclesiastical voice in Northumbria and had mediated between English and Norse rulers. His imprisonment showed the limits of English tolerance for Northumbrian duality and the degree to which the Church was entangled in the complex politics of the northern frontier.
English royal authority under Eadred
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