Uhtred submitted to him there, as did all of the Danes in the north. In 1013 King Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark invaded England, sailing up the Humber and Trent to the town of Gainsborough. This Gospatric's grandson was the infamous Eadwulf Rus who murdered Bishop Walcher. With Sige, Uhtred had two children, Eadulf, later Eadulf III, and Gospatric. It appears that Uhtred was trying to make political allies amongst the Danes in Deira. Īfter receiving these honours Uhtred dismissed his wife, Ecgfrida, and married Sige, daughter of Styr, son of Ulf. It seems likely that Ethelred did not trust the Scandinavian population of southern Northumbria and wanted an Anglo-Saxon in power there. He also had Ælfhelm murdered, and allowed Uhtred to succeed Ælfhelm as ealdorman of York, thus uniting northern and southern Northumbria under the house of Bamburgh. Local women washed the severed heads of the Scots, receiving a payment of a cow for each, and the heads were fixed on stakes to Durham's walls.Įthelred rewarded Uhtred with the ealdormanry of Bamburgh even though his father was still alive. Uhtred, acting for his father, called together an army from Bernicia and Yorkshire and led it against the Scots, winning a decisive victory. Ealdorman Ælfhelm of York also took no action. Ealdorman Waltheof was too old to fight and remained in his castle at Bamburgh. At that time the Danes were raiding southern England and the English King Ethelred was unable to send help to the Northumbrians. In 1006 King Malcolm II of Scotland invaded Northumbria and besieged the newly founded episcopal city of Durham. From his marriage he received several estates that had belonged to the church. The new cathedral was founded by Bishop Aldhun, and Uhtred married Aldhun's daughter, Ecgfrida, probably at about this time. In 995, according to Symeon of Durham, 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. Not to be confused with Uhtred the son of Eadwulf I of Bamburgh. Uhtred's death by assassination was described in De obsessione Dunelmi and has been interpreted as the beginning of a blood feud. He was the son of Waltheof I, ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg), whose family the Eadwulfings had ruled the surrounding region for over a century. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold - sometimes Uchtred died c. The name of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria as it appears on folio 153r of British Library Cotton MS Tiberius B I (the 'C' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): 'Uhtrede eorle'.

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