Following the 1069 revolt, William I systematically devastated Yorkshire in the winter of 1069-70. Crops were burned, livestock slaughtered, food stores destroyed, and farm implements broken. A medieval chronicler wrote that between York and Durham there was no inhabited village. The famine that followed killed an estimated 100,000 people. The Domesday Book of 1086 still recorded enormous areas of Yorkshire as 'waste'. It was the worst atrocity committed by an English king against his own subjects.
Estimated 100,000 dead from famine and violence
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