David II invaded northern England in October 1346 in fulfilment of his alliance with France, deliberately seeking to relieve English pressure on Philip VI at Crecy. The Scottish army marched through Cumberland and into County Durham, ravaging extensively as Bruce's armies had done a generation before. David II's advance reached Neville's Cross west of Durham city, where the English northern levies under the Archbishop of York and Ralph Neville intercepted and defeated the army, capturing the king himself.
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