• De obsessione Dunelmi ("On the siege of Durham") is an historical work written in the north of England during the Anglo-Norman period, almost certainly...
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  • over a century. Uhtred's death by assassination was described in De obsessione Dunelmi and has been interpreted as the beginning of a blood feud. Not to...
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  • King Æthelred II. This follows the ancestry given in the earlier De obsessione Dunelmi, in which Gospatric's father is named as Maldred, son of Crinan...
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  • Moddan, Earl of Caithness, and a son Maldred. The latter is said by De obsessione Dunelmi to have been son of Crinan, tein (thegn Crínán), identified as Crínán...
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  • Reign of Æthelred II.34-5. John of Worcester, Chronicon, AD 1009. De Obsessione Dunelmi § 2; Handbook of British Chronology, p. 27. Handbook of British...
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  • in the Battle of Carham. In one twelfth-century Durham source, De obsessione Dunelmi, Ealdulf is described as "a very lazy and cowardly man", who ceded...
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    was not recorded as taking any action against the Scots. The work De obsessione Dunelmi (The siege of Durham, associated with Symeon of Durham) claims that...
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  • century Maldred (Gaelic: Máel Doraid) of Allerdale, referred to by De obsessione Dunelmi as a son of 'thegn Crínán', possibly Crínán, abbot of Dunkeld, which...
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  • According to the late-11th- or early-12th-century Durham tract called De obsessione Dunelmi, Thurbrand was the "leading enemy" of Styr son of Ulf. The same...
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  • govern northern and southern Northumbria together. The text known as De obsessione Dunelmi ("On the siege of Durham"), relates that Uhtred took power after...
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