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Personal data UCHTRED 5th lord of Bamburgh Earl of Northumberland 28th GGF 

• He was born in the year 955.
• (Career) in the year 995 in Durham, Northumberland, England: When the remains of St Cuthbert were transferred from Chester-le-Street to Durham, Uhtred went to Durham with his monks to clear the site of the new cathedral..
• He died in the year 1016 in Rise, Yorkshire, England, he was 61 years old.

  Uhtred was summoned to a meeting with Cnut, and on the way there, he and forty of his men were murdered by Thurbrand the Hold, with assistance from Uhtred's own servant, Wighill and with the connivance of Cnut.

• A child of WALTHEOF 4th lord of Bamburgh Earl of Bernicia and ELFEDA 29th GGM

Household of UCHTRED 5th lord of Bamburgh Earl of Northumberland 28th GGF

(1) He has/had a relationship with Ælfgifu of England.

Child(ren):

1. EALDGYTH of Northumberland 28th GGM  ± 1015-± 1086 

(2) He is married to ECGFRIDA 28th GGF.

They got married in the year 995 at Durham, Northumberland, England, he was 40 years old.

Child(ren):

1. ALDRED Earl of Northumberland  ± 997-1038 

The couple were divorced in 1006.

Notes about UCHTRED 5th lord of Bamburgh Earl of Northumberland 28th GGF

1 - also Earl of Bernicia

2 - Uchtred, who was thrice married, and had by his 2nd wife, Elgiva, a daughter, Aldgetha, who married Maldred, and was mother of Cospatrick.
(Surtees "Durham")
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3 - In the 969th year after the birth of Our Lord, in the reign of Ethelred, King of the English; Malcolm, king of the Scots, son of King Kenneth, having gathered the army of all Scotland, devastated the province of the Northumbrians by fire and slaughter. and surrounded Durham in a siege. At this time, the bishop in this same place was Ealdun. Waltheof who had been earl of the Northumbrians, shut himself up in Bamburgh. He was in fact of great age and so too old to he able to make a stand against the enemy. Bishop Ealdun had given his daughter, Ecgfrida, as a wife to Earl Waltheoes son, Uhtred - a young man of great energy and very skilled in war. Ealdun gave with her these vills of the Church of St Cuthbert - Barmpton, Skirningham, Elton, Carlton, School Aycliffe, Monk Heselden - under this condition, that he (Uhtred) retain them for as long as he always lived honourably in marriage with his daughter. Seeing the land devastated by the enemy and Durham besieged. and his father unable to act, the young warrior gathered the army of the Northumbrians and the people of York, no small force. and killed almost all the Scottish host: whose king himself barely escaped by fleeing with a few men. He had the heads of the dead made more presentable with their hair combed, as then was the custom, and transported to Durham; there washed by four women, and fixed on stakes round the walls; they gave the women who had washed them a cow each as payment.
Hearing of this. King Ethelred called the aforementioned young man to him, and whilst his father, Waltheof, was still living, gave him as a reward for his prowess and the way in which he fought. his father's earldom, adding the earldom of York.
But on his return home, Uhtred dismissed the daughter of Bishop Ealdun, and because he put her away against that which he had promised and sworn, the father of the girl. namely the bishop, took back the aforesaid church lands which he had given with her to Uhtred. Having sent away the bishop«sup»'«/sup»s daughter, Uhtred married Sige, the daughter of Styr, son of Ulf, a wealthy and prominent man; her father gave her to him on the condition that he would kill Styr«sup»'«/sup»s leading enemy Thurbrand. After this, of course. Uhtred went on to greater and greater military success and King Ethelred united him in marriage with his daughter Aelfgifu, from whom he had a daughter, Ealdgyth, whose father gave her in marriage to Maldred son of Crinan the thegn. To them was born Cospatric, father of Dolfin, Waltheof, and Cospatric.
Swegn, king of the Danes, King Ethelred of the English having fled to Normandy, invaded the kingdom of the same. But, not long after, he died and King Ethelred returned to his kingdom hav ing joined to himself in marriage Emma, daughter of Earl Richard of the Normans. A very short time later, Cnut, son of the aforesaid king of the Danes, Swegn, arriving with an enormous force in England to reign, sent to Earl Uhtred, asking him to help him against King Ethefred, with all those whom he could gather together, promising him ample rewards and much more besides if he would help him. For he (Uhtred) was already an earl of great power in that he held the earldom of the Yorkshiremen and the Northumbrians. But he was in no way favourable - he replied that the worst man is the one who does such things against his lord and father-in-law. «sup»"«/sup»No reward«sup»"«/sup» he said "could persuade me to do what I ought not to. I will serve the king as long as«sup» «/sup»he lives. He is both my lord and my father-in-law, by whose gift I enjoy enough riches and honour. I will «i»never «/i»betray him." And so Cnut got no help from Uhtred.
After King Ethelred's death. when Cnut had laid hands upon the whole kingdom of England, he sent to the earl ordering him to come to him as his new lord. He did so, having accepted safe conduct for his journey and return. On the appointed day, he entered the kings presence at «sup»"«/sup»Wiheal«sup»"«/sup» to discuss terms of peace: through the treachery of a powerful king's thegn, Thurbrand, known as Hold, the kings soldiers who had hidden behind a curtain spread across the width of the hall. suddenly sprang out in mail and slaughtered the earl and forty of his chief men who had entered with him.
[A Study of Marriage and Murder in Eleventh-century Northumbria:Issue 82 By Christopher J. Morris]

4 - The rulers of Bernicia held the title of High Reeve of Bamburgh from at least 913 until 1041, when the last was killed by Harthacnut; sometimes - 954-963 and 975-1016 - they also served as Earls of York. The castle was destroyed in a renewed Viking attack in 993 and in 1018 the Lothian part of Bernicia was ceded to Scotland, significantly reducing the area controlled from Bamburgh.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh]

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