Siward (/ˈsuːwərd/ or more recently /ˈsiːwərd/) or Sigurd (Old English: Sigeweard, Old Norse: Sigurðr digri) was an important earl of 11th-century northern...

reign of William I. Waltheof was the second son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. His mother was Aelfflaed, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Bernicia, son of Uhtred...

succeeded him as Earl of Wessex, that is, overlord of roughly the southernmost third of England. On the deaths of Earl Siward of Northumbria (1055) and later...

English invasion, led by Siward, Earl of Northumbria, on behalf of Edward the Confessor. Macbeth was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan in 1057 by forces...

Earl of Northumbria (died 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria (also portrayed as a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth) Siward (bishop of Rochester)...

earldom. Three years later in 1055, Tostig became the Earl of Northumbria upon the death of Earl Siward. He was on intimate terms with his brother-in-law...

Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The...

succeeded as Earl of Bernicia by his half-brother, Eadwulf, who was murdered in 1041 by Siward, Earl of Northumbria, husband of one of Ealdred's daughters...

led by Siward, Earl of Northumbria and Malcolm Canmore on 27 July 1054. The battle was part of a campaign launched by Siward in support of Malcolm's claim...

or mound and may refer to a tumulus, or barrow. Siward's Howe is named for Siward, Earl of Northumbria, the 11th-century Danish warrior. He was romanticised...

given the nickname Bulax, was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055). He is one of two known sons of Siward, believed to be the elder. While it...

895-962), Earl of Lade Saint Sigurd of Växjö, also known as Sigfrid Siward, Earl of Northumbria, whose Danish name was Sigurd Sigurd Jonsson of Sudreim...

carried out by Siward, Earl of Northumbria; when the Libellus de exordio and other sources write about the same event, they say that Siward attacked and...

Conqueror stripped Gospatric of his Earldom of Northumbria, and replaced him with Siward's son Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton. Gospatric fled into exile in...

island of Iona. The 14th-century chronicler John of Fordun would write that Duncan's wife was a kinswoman of the Anglo-Danish Siward, Earl of Northumbria, who...

this Siward was Siward Barn, arguing that Siward must have been a descendant of Uhtred the Bold, Earl of Northumbria, and Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred...

is the traditional site of a 1054 battle in which Siward, Earl of Northumbria defeated Macbeth of Scotland. The much earlier Iron Age hill fort has long...

to Northumbria when Earl Siward died in 1055. He ignored the claims of Siward's son, Waltheof, and appointed Tostig Godwinson as earl. The earldom of East...

last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Her mother...

death of his father, King Duncan, in battle with Macbeth, Malcolm had been sheltered by Earl Siward of Northumbria, his uncle. It was with Siward's backing...

Huntingdonshire. In 1065 the earldom passed to Waltheof, son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Waltheof kept his title following the Conquest in 1066, and...

father of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. This pedigree commences with an episode not found in the Worcester chronicler's pedigree but similar to that of Saxo...

when Earl Siward married his great-granddaughter and named his son Waltheof. This son of Siward became Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and one of his descendants...

(1016–1023) Siward (1023x1033–1055), ruled all Northumbria after 1041 William le Gros, having already been charged with the defence of the city of York, was...

England, Siward the north, and Leofric and his son Ælfgar the centre. This state of affairs came to an end when Siward, Earl of Northumbria died in 1055...

invasion in 1054, with Siward, Earl of Northumbria in command, had as its goal the installation of one "Máel Coluim, son of the king of the Cumbrians". This...

the honour of God and to all his saints.’ Galmanho is a former name for the area where the church stands and Siward, Earl of Northumbria, is believed...

various younger brothers. First Siward, earl of Northumbria, died in 1055 and was succeeded by Tostig. Then in 1057 the earl of Mercia died and was succeeded...

remained part of Strathclyde until about 1050, when Siward, Earl of Northumbria, conquered that part of Cumbria. Carlisle was part of Scotland by 1066...

Ponthieu, is captured during the course of the battle. July 27 – Siward, earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland, to support King Malcolm III against Macbeth...