Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF YORKSHIRE
- 2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF YORKSHIRE 1066–1135: TERRITORIAL CONSOLIDATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE INTEGRATION
- 3 THE TRANSFORMATION OF YORKSHIRE 1086–1135: MILITARY ENFEOFFMENT AND MONASTERIES
- 4 THE REIGN OF STEPHEN
- 5 THE SCOTS IN THE NORTH
- 6 CARTAE BARONUM, NEW ENFEOFFMENTS AND THE NATURE OF THE HONOUR
- 7 THE FIRST CENTURY OF ENGLISH FEUDALISM
- Tables
- Select bibliography
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
- Index
5 - THE SCOTS IN THE NORTH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF YORKSHIRE
- 2 THE TRANSFORMATION OF YORKSHIRE 1066–1135: TERRITORIAL CONSOLIDATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE INTEGRATION
- 3 THE TRANSFORMATION OF YORKSHIRE 1086–1135: MILITARY ENFEOFFMENT AND MONASTERIES
- 4 THE REIGN OF STEPHEN
- 5 THE SCOTS IN THE NORTH
- 6 CARTAE BARONUM, NEW ENFEOFFMENTS AND THE NATURE OF THE HONOUR
- 7 THE FIRST CENTURY OF ENGLISH FEUDALISM
- Tables
- Select bibliography
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
- Index
Summary
In the reign of Stephen Yorkshire resumed its early eleventh-century position as a frontier county. The king was unable to prevent Scottish incursions into Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham in January 1136 and January 1138; and his retaliatory campaign of February 1138 did nothing to provide security against further attacks. The Scots were ceded the lordship of Carlisle in the first treaty of Durham in 1136, and the earldom of Northumbria in the second treaty of Durham in 1139. In Yorkshire Stephen placed royal administrative and military power in the hands of a single magnate, William earl of York; a policy which resembles the frontier strategy of previous English kings in the marcher counties on the border with Wales. It was a policy which failed to safeguard Yorkshire from a further extension of Scottish authority and influence.
This chapter will elucidate and explain the growth of Scottish power in the far north of England and Yorkshire in Stephen's reign, and King David's ultimate aims within the region. It will reveal that the scope of Scottish ambitions in England during the anarchy may have been much broader than has hitherto been realised.
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- Conquest, Anarchy and LordshipYorkshire, 1066–1154, pp. 196 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994