Harrying Of The North
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- Created on: 05-07-20 20:58
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- Harrying Of The North
- Reasons
- To destroy the spirit of rebellion in the north
- To prevent vikings using Yorkshire as base for future attacks
- As a warning to other areas of England of what could happen to them
- Revenge for the death of Robert Cumin and hundreds of other normans
- A military responsee to guerrilla warfare, which depended on supportfor rebels from local people
- Features
- Livestock killed
- Homes destroyed so people had nowhere to shelter
- Took place in the winter of 1069-70
- Area of harrying streached from the Humber River to the Tees River. Also in Staffordshire and parts of Shropshire
- Seed destroyed so there was nothing to plant for food the next year
- Long Term Consequence
- Criticism of William's brutality and William's own sense of his sin and need for penance
- No further rebellion from the north; after 1071 no further Anglo-Saxon rebellions
- Danish invades in 1070 went to Ely as there was now no base for them in Yorkshire
- A turning point: after 1070 william decided to replace the English aristocracy with Normans
- 20 years later, Yorkshire had still not recovered; 60 per cent was listed as 'waste' in the Domesday Book and there were between 80 000 and 150 000 fewer people than 1066
- Immediate Consequence
- Death of thousands from starvation: perhaps as many as 100 000 people died
- Flood of refugees from the north to other parts of England, e.g. The West
- Reports of families selling themselves into slavery to survive
- Reports of cannibalism by desperate, starving people
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