The widespread northern uprising of 1069 to 1070, combining English rebels with a Danish invasion fleet, was the gravest threat to the Norman settlement and provoked the catastrophic Harrying of the North in response.
William I: c. 5,000–7,000. English rebels & Danish fleet: c. 6,000–8,000.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Yorkshire