David I of Scotland, uncle of Empress Matilda, invaded northern England in 1138 in support of her claim, his forces committing widespread atrocities in Northumberland and Yorkshire that horrified contemporaries. The invasion penetrated as far south as the Yorkshire Dales and provoked the mustering of an English baronial army under Archbishop Thurstan that would confront the Scots at the Battle of the Standard near Northallerton. The preliminary ravaging of the north formed the context for the battle.
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