* 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173 – 1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

In 1174, at the Battle of Alnwick, during a raid in support of the revolt, William recklessly charged the English troops himself, shouting, " Now we shall see which of us are good knights!

* 1174: On July 12, William I of Scotland is captured by the English in the Battle of Alnwick.

* 1093: Battle of Alnwick: Malcolm III of Scotland is killed by the forces of William II of England.

* November 13 – Battle of Alnwick: Malcolm III of Scotland is defeated and killed by the forces of William II of England.

* March – William of Alnwick, Franciscan friar and theologian

** William of Alnwick, Franciscan theologian ( d. 1333 )

* William I of Scotland is captured by Ranulf de Glanvill at the Battle of Alnwick, and Henry II of England occupies part of Scotland.

But in 1174, King William " the Lion " ( ruled 1165 – 1214 ) was captured by the English at the Battle of Alnwick.

At the side of the broad shady road called Rotten Row, leading from the West Lodge to Bailiffgate, a tablet of stone marks the spot where William the Lion of Scotland was captured in 1174, during the second Battle of Alnwick by a party of about four hundred mounted knights, led by Ranulf de Glanvill ; and there are many others of similar interest.

It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by William the Lion, King of Scotland and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick.

Conan IV, Duke of Brittany married Margaret of Huntingdon, whose brother William I of Scotland was prisoner in the castle keep after the Battle of Alnwick ( 1174 ).

In 1174, when he was Sheriff of Westmorland, he was one of the English leaders at the Battle of Alnwick, and it was to him that the king of Scotland, William the Lion, surrendered.

* William Alnwick, Bishop of Norwich ( 1422 – 1432 )

These instruments seem to have been well-established in Northumberland by the early 18th century ; many of the tunes in the William Dixon manuscript are suitable for such simple chanters, and a painting of Joseph Turnbull, Piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, in Alnwick Castle, shows him with such a set.

* William of Alnwick

" Lads of Alnwick ", in particular, has survived in the oral and manuscript tradition without major change from its earliest known appearance in the 1730s in William Dixon's MS, until the modern era, when an almost identical 5-strain version was written down by Tom Clough.

* William of Alnwick

The day following the ceremony at Canterbury, on 13 July 1174, in a seeming act of divine providence for Henry II, William the Lion and many of his supporters were surprised and captured at the Battle of Alnwick by a small band of loyalists.

As a part of the coalition set by Louis VII, William the Lion first invaded Northumberland in 1173 and then again in 1174, as a result he was captured near Alnwick and had to sign the tough Treaty of Falaise.

Led by Ranulf de Glanvill, Henry's men captured William I of Scotland at the Battle of Alnwick, but allowed him to swear fealty to Henry at York Castle.

William of Alnwick ( c. 1275 – March 1333 ) was a Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, who took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland.

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* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )

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Jacob's Ladder by William Blake ( c. 1800, British Museum, London ).

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