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Posts in The Copybook for ‘The Second Treaty of Durham’

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The Battle of the Standard Clay Lane

Scottish King David I hoped to exploit the unpopularity of the Normans by trading on his own English heritage.

Arguably, David I of Scotland’s invasion of England in 1138 was a legitimate attempt to keep England English, after the Kings of the House of Wessex were usurped in the Norman invasion of 1066. David certainly argued it that way, but his rabble of an army had less lofty goals in mind.

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