Neville's Cross: David II captured
October 1346
Invading Northumberland to relieve French pressure, the king of Scots was wounded by two arrows in the face and taken prisoner near Durham by the English northern levies. He would spend eleven years in English captivity. Scotland, ungoverned, drifted; the Hundred Years' War had spilled across the Tweed in expensive new ways.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.