In 1138 David I King of Scotland, and Prince of the Cumbrians, invaded to complete his conquest of the North of England, having conquered parts of Lancashire & Yorkshire only two years previously.
Thurstan, the sixty-eight year old Archbishop of York, gathered an army to repel the Scots which carried the standards, or banners, of York, Durham, Beverley and Ripon Minsters.
Discover why David I invaded the north of England, the course of the Battle of the Standard and why his army was defeated.
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