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1068

Northern English revolt

1068

Earls Edwin and Morcar rose against William's Norman rule, joined by Danish mercenaries and northern Anglo-Saxon thegns. William marched north, built castles at Warwick, Nottingham, and York, and crushed the revolt. It was a preview of the greater 1069 rising that would end in the Harrying of the North, the most devastating military campaign ever inflicted on an English civilian population.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1067: Bayeux Tapestry Embroidery Likely Begins
After: 1069: Harrying of the North

Before and after in War

Before: December 30, 1066: Granada massacre of Jews
After: 1069: Harrying of the North

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.