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Revolt of the Earls

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Roger was also deprived of his lands and earldom, but unlike Ralph he was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. He was briefly released along with other political prisoners, but was promptly beheaded after William's death in 1087. On 31 May 1076 Waltheof was beheaded, on St Giles's Hill near
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held out in Norwich until she obtained terms for herself and her followers, who were deprived of their lands, but were allowed forty days to leave the realm. The Countess retired to her estate in Brittany, where she was rejoined by her husband.
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William deprived Ralph of all his lands including his earldom, and expelled him from England, with Ralph retiring to his lands in Brittany.
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The revolt was caused by the king's refusal (in his absence – he had been in Normandy since 1073) to sanction the marriage between
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brought into the field against him. Ralph in the meantime encountered a much superior force under the warrior bishops
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began the revolt; but it was plagued by disaster. Waltheof soon lost heart and confessed the conspiracy to
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might also have been deposed after the revolt, with his lands given to William's half-brother
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Roger, who was to bring his force from the west to join Ralph, was held in check at the
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him and his adherents. Waltheof then confessed the conspiracy to William in
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1075 rebellion in medieval England against William the Conqueror
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and Hakon, but they failed to do anything effective.
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Index

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Norman Conquest
Fulford
Stamford Bridge
Hastings
Southwark
Exeter
Harrying of the North
Danish attacks
Revolt of the Earls
William I of England
Norman Conquest
Emma
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford
Ralph de Guader
Earl of East Anglia
Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford
Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumberland
Archbishop of Canterbury
Lanfranc
excommunicated
Normandy
River Severn
fyrd
Wulfstan
Odo of Bayeux
Geoffrey de Montbray
Cambridge

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