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.