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KING HENRY I AND NORTHERN ENGLAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

Abstract

England north of the Humber and the Mersey in the early twelfth century has in the past tended to be discussed in the context of the development of the monarchy. The Normans moved into the northern counties later and in fewer numbers than the south, and in the wake of the Norman settlement the north came to be more fully integrated into the southern kingdom. A fresh perspective on the period is gained by comparing Henry I's rule over the north with that in other regions of England, Wales and Normandy. Its keys were old-style dynastic politics and patronage, and his achievement that of bringing peace to the region.

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53 On this quarrel the language of the Worcester chronicler is particularly interesting as suggesting that Malcolm was claiming that he only owed ‘hommage en marche’, whereas William intended to treat him as a vassal in his court: ‘Nam Malcolmum uidere aut cum eo colloqui, pre nimia superbia et potentia, Wilelmus despexit, insuper etiam illum ut, secundum iudicium tantum suorum baronum, in curia sua rectitudinem ei faceret, constringere uoluit, sed id agere, nisi in regnorum suorum confiniis, ubi reges Scottorum erant soliti rectitudinem facere regibus Anglorum, et secundum iudicium primatum utriusque regni, nullo modo Malcolmus uoluit’, JW, iii, 64. In fact the submission Malcolm had made to the Conqueror in 1072 had not been on the frontier between their realms but at Abernethy. The language of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at this point differs: ‘When he [Malcolm] came to the king, he could not be granted speech with our king nor the fulfilment of the terms that had been promised him, and so they parted with great dissension’, ASC, E 1093.

54 At issue here is, first of all, the authenticity of the charter which Edgar granted to Durham which referred to his possession of ‘the whole land of Lothian and the kingship of Scotland by gift of King William and by paternal heritage’, Early Scottish Charters prior to 1153, ed. A. C. Lawrie (Glasgow, 1905), no. 5. The authenticity of this charter has been debated: queried by J. Donnelly, ‘The Earliest Scottish Charters?’, Scottish Historical Review, 68 (1989), 1–22, its authenticity was reaffirmed by A. A. M. Duncan, ‘Yes, the Earliest Scottish Charters’, Scottish Historical Review, 78 (1999), 1–35; and most recently by Duncan, Kingship of the Scots, 56–7. The language used in the charter in any event may be assumed to reflect Rufus's view of his superior authority over Edgar. Secondly, according to Gaimar, writing in the 1130s, Rufus promised Edgar a daily allowance when he visited the English court, and further claimed that Edgar carried a sword at the great court held in the new hall at Westminster in 1099, L'estoire, ed. A. Bell (Oxford, 1960), ll. 6176–83, 5975–6020; Duncan, Kingship of the Scots, 58.

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67 Ranulf gave the church of St Lawrence ‘of my castle of Appleby’ to Wetheral: Register of Wetheral Priory, ed. Prescott, no. 3.

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71 When the nineteen Northumberland tenants-in-chief reported their enfeoffments in 1166, only three did not specifically say that they held ‘of the old enfeoffment’, that is, that they had been enfeoffed before 1135: Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. H. Hall (3 vols., Rolls Series, 1896), i, 436–44. When the Northumberland baronies were surveyed in 1212, their holders reported variously on the date their ancestors had received the lands. No fewer than nine said that the grants had been made by Henry I, and several others ‘post conquestum’ or ‘de veteri feoffamento’, Liber Feodorum. The Book of Fees Commonly Called Testa de Nevill Reformed from the Earliest MSS. by the Deputy Keeper of the Records (3 vols., 1920–31), i, 200–5; for discussion of these lordships see W. Percy Hedley, Northumberland Families (2 vols., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968–70).

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76 Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum, in Opera Omnia, ii, 259–60.

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78 Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum, in Opera Omnia, ii, 267. For the city see H. Summerson, Medieval Carlisle. The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century, CWAAS, extra series 25 (1993), i, 18–54.

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82 Ibid., 61.

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98 For Michael, appointed before the death of Archbishop Thomas II in February 1114, and his successor John, see: Hugh the Chanter, The History of the Church of York 1066–1127, 52–3, 212–17; Shead, ‘Origins of the Medieval Diocese of Glasgow’, 220–5; Oram, David I, 63; Charters of David I, ed. Barrow, nos. 9, 10.

99 Davies, Age of Conquest, ch. 7.

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101 Henry visited the abbey in 1113, granted the monks a charter and received the privilege of confraternity, OV, vi, 174–6; RRAN, ii, no. 1019. For other royal documents for the abbey see RRAN, ii, nos. 533, 1235, 1337, 1553, 1572, *1594–5.

102 For Henry's charters see J. Van Moolenbroek, Vital l'ermite, prédicateur itinérant, fondateur de l'abbaye normande de Savigny, trans. Anne-Marie Nambet, Revue de l'Avranchin, 68 (1991), nos. 1, 3; RRAN, ii, nos. 1016, 1183, 1212, 1433, 1588, 1973.

103 The edition is under the direction of Richard Sharpe, whose study of the north-west in Norman Rule in Cumbria is based on a close examination of the documentary evidence for the north-west, and for Northumberland.

104 Green, Government of England, 238–9.

105 Warren, ‘Myth of Norman Administrative Efficiency’, 131.

106 PR 31 Henry I, 27, 33.

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113 Ibid., nos. 167–9; The Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops, ed. J. Raine (3 vols., Rolls Series, 1879–84), ii, 266.

114 Early Yorkshire Charters, ed. Farrer, i, nos. 351–3; for discussion see J. Burton, The Monastic Order in Yorkshire 1069–1135 (Cambridge, 1999), 39–43.

115 Early Yorkshire Charters, ed. Clay, vii, nos. 2–4.

116 PR 31 Henry I, 33–4.

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118 Ibid., 130–3.

119 Ibid., 131–2.

120 Aird, St Cuthbert and the Normans, 209.

121 PR 31 Henry I, 140–2.

122 Ibid., 140–1.

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125 PR 31 Henry I, 142–3; Sharpe, Norman Rule in Cumbria, 13–14.

126 For this term see Ranulf's charter for Wetheral, Register of Wetheral Priory, ed. Prescott, no. 1.

127 For the sheriffs see J. A. Green, English Sheriffs to 1154, Public Record Office Handbooks, no. 24 (1990), 65–6. To judge from his name, Aluric of Corbridge may have been English. Corbridge had been a Roman fort near the bank of the river Tyne and seems to have been a centre for south Northumberland: H. H. E. Craster, A History of Northumberland, x (Newcastle and London, 1914), 38–40. Aluric's son held Dilston as a barony: Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall, i, 441. For Odard of Bamburgh, see Green, Government of England, 264.

128 For a table of farms see G. H. White, Restoration and Reform 1153–1165 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, xlvi, Cambridge, 2000), 220–6: Carlisle accounted for some £56, Northumberland £139, Yorkshire, £444. Berkshire by comparison accounted for £521.

129 For the system of policing known as frankpledge see Morris, W. A., The Frankpledge System (Cambridge, MA, 1910)Google Scholar.

130 Warren, ‘Myth of Norman Administrative Efficiency’, 124.

131 PR 31 Henry I, 27, 131.

132 William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, i, ed. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom (Oxford, 1998), 742.

133 K. J. Stringer, ‘State-Building in Twelfth-Century Britain: David I, King of Scots, and Northern England’, in Government, Religion and Society in Northern England, ed. Appleby and Dalton, 40–62; Oram, David I, ch. 10.

134 Richard of Hexham, ‘De Gestis Regis Stephani et de Bello Standardi’, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, ed. Howlett, iii, 139–78. The terms of the treaty are at 177–8.