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416 – The Harrying of the North

The British History Podcast

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The Death of Prince Ruwathlin

In the end, Ang Harrod's grandsons lay dead. Northumbria was the only place that still had such an army standing. The Norman defeat at York had been so bad that Earl Walthia reportedly spent the last battle of York mowing down knights like a field of dandelions. Only Gilbert of Ghent and William Mallet with his family survived - though now they were prisoners.

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