Earl of Northumbria
Earl of Northumbria was a title in the Anglo-Danish , late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman period in England . The Earldom Northumbria was the successor to the Ealdormanry Bamburgh , which in turn was the successor to the independent Kingdom of Bernicia . At the time of the Kingdom of Jórvik , the Earls of Deira ruled here . Northumbria was later united under the Bernicia dynasty, which ruled Bernicia until 1041, while other counts appointed by Canute the Great sat in York to rule Northumbria. In the early Anglo-Norman period, Northumbria was divided into the Earldom of York and the Earldom of Northumberland , with a large portion also going to the Bishop of Durham .
Earls of Northumbria
- Osulf I. (954–963), Earl of Bernicia from 930
- Oslac , exiled in 975
- Waltheof I. (963-995)
- Uhtred (1006-1016)
- Erik Håkonsson (1016-1023)
- Siward (1031-1055)
- Tostig Godwinson (1055-1065)
- Morcar (1065-1066)
- Copsi (1067)
- Osulf II (1067)
- Gospatric (1067-1068)
- Robert de Comines (1068-1069)
Vacancy during the sack of the north
- Gospatric (again 1070-1072)
- Waltheof II. (1072-1075)
- William Walcher (1075-1080), also Bishop of Durham
- Aubrey de Coucy (also Albric; 1080, formally perhaps until 1086)
- Robert de Montbray (Robert de Mowbray) (1086-1095) ( House Mowbray )
Vacant until King Stephen of England was forced by King David I to give Northumbria to his son Henry
- Henry of Scotland (1139-1152)
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William I of Scotland (1152–1157)
- King Heinrich II deposed him in 1157 and expropriated him.
- Hugh de Puiset , Bishop of Durham , 1189/93 Earl as the county's pawnbroker to fund the King Richard the Lionheart's crusade
Otherwise vacant until the First Barons' War (1215-1217), when the Barons of Northumberland and York submitted to King Alexander II of Scotland
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. Alexander II of Scotland , 1215 - 1217
- 1217 by King Henry III. subjugated by England .
See also
- List of the kings of Northumbria (604–878)
- Kingdom of Jórvík (875–954)
- Earl of York
- Earl of Northumberland
Footnotes
- ^ The Complete Peerage , London: The St Catherine Press 1936, 9: 704-5