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Robert de Comines, Earl of Northumbria, was killed in Durham, causing William the Conqueror to embark on a campaign to subjugate northern England.
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11th-century Flemish noble in England
Robert de Comines was briefly Earl of Northumbria.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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City in County Durham, England
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King of England (1066–1087) and Duke of Normandy (1035–1087)
William the Conqueror, sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle, his hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)