During David I's great invasion of 1138 in support of Empress Matilda, Scottish and Galwegian raiding parties penetrated deep into Yorkshire. The atrocities committed by the Galwegians -- raping women, killing children, spearing priests -- were described with horror by contemporaries including Ailred of Rievaulx, who was a young man at the time. The raids reached as far as Thirsk and Northallerton. The shock of these atrocities helped bring the English defenders together for the Battle of the Standard.
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