After the killing of Walcher at Gateshead, William I sent his half-brother Odo of Bayeux north with a punitive army to avenge the murder and reassert Norman authority over Northumberland. Odo's campaign was brutal -- the Northumbrian community was devastated, leaders executed, and the county stripped of its remaining autonomy. The campaign was the second great Northern harrying after 1069-1070 and reduced Northumberland to a largely empty military frontier.
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