Lanercost Priory had been Edward Is favourite base for his Scottish campaigns — he stayed there repeatedly during his campaigns and died near Carlisle on his way north in 1307. David IIs army passing through and damaging Lanercost in 1346 was an act of symbolic as well as military significance. The Scots were demonstrating that they had reversed the humiliations of the conquest era. The episode illustrates the personal and dynastic dimensions of what was also a strategic conflict.
Scottish army under David II; no effective defence at Lanercost
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