Cnut had put aside his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton in order to marry Emma, and according to the Encomium Emmae Reginae, a book she inspired many years later, Cnut agreed that any sons of their marriage should take precedence over the sons of his first marriage.

They are dedicated to two members of the Catholic nobility, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton and Byrd's own patron Sir John Petre, who had been elevated to the peerage in 1603 under the title Lord Petre of Writtle.

She had a younger brother, William, later 1st Marquess of Northampton, and a sister, Anne, later Countess of Pembroke.

When the Battle of Northampton was fought, Queen Margaret and her seven-year-old son Edward had been at Eccleshall Castle near Coventry.

The rebels stormed Norwich on 21 July and on 1 August defeated a force led by the Marquess of Northampton that had been sent by the government to suppress the uprising.

Warwick was in the same trap as Northampton had been, surrounded inside a city in danger of being burnt to the ground.

The animals had been euthanized after being removed from shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties.

Buckingham had inherited a great deal of property from his great-great-grandmother, Eleanor de Bohun, wife of Thomas of Woodstock and daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton.

In that year the Yorkists had captured the king at the battle of Northampton, but victory was short-lived.

After Harold, by then the king's right hand man, had spoken with the rebels at Northampton, he likely realized that Tostig would not be able to retain Northumbria.

The new settlers named their community " Northampton " in honor of the home they had left in Massachusetts.

He had been in favor of the merger with Northampton Township because of the additional land that could be used for development.

In a bid to get a navigable link, the Commissioners opposed the bill to build a link between the Grand Junction Canal and the Old Union Canal, but relented when they had a firm agreement that a navigable link to Northampton would be built.

When he returned on leave, she had dropped out of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts ; two weeks later, on January 6, 1945, they were married at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.

The Marquess of Northampton had been unable to restore order in and around Norwich, so John Dudley was sent to get hold of Kett's Rebellion.

Around 1984 and 1985, Spacemen 3 were doing gigs every two or three months on the local Rugby / Northampton / Coventry circuit, and had a regular spot at The Black Lion public house in Northampton.

Mattock had been playing in a Northampton band called ' The Apple Creation ’.

Mosley's electoral strategy had been to prepare for the election after 1935, and in 1936 he announced a list of BUF candidates for that election, with Elam nominated to stand for Northampton.

On 8 February, at a speech in his home town of Northampton, he went even further, describing how he had shared the privations of his men by living the " whole time in a common tent " and how, after the charge, he had rallied his troops and pursued the fleeing enemy artillerymen as far as the Tchernaya river.

The estate had its own railway station called Althorp Park on the Northampton Loop Line until 1960.

He claimed that John Daunger, a parish clerk in Northampton, could attest that Jacquetta had made two other images, one for the king and one for the queen.

Northampton had an electorate of about one thousand — every male householder not in receipt of poor relief had a vote — and the town had a strong radical tradition.

The 2nd World War affected Swindon Town more than most other football clubs and the club was almost disbanded, the club needed a large amount of time to recover and for this reason it failed to make any real impression in the league and would not climb into the second division until 1963 when they finished runners up to Northampton Town.

As Southern League champions, Northampton contested and lost the 1909 Charity Shield, 2 – 0 to Newcastle United, and although they did not win the Southern League title again during Chapman's reign as manager, they finished in the top four for each of the following three seasons.

Munster ended their 2011-12 Heineken Cup Pool 1 games with a 36-51 victory against Northampton Saints, securing the top seed in the quarter-finals and winning 6 out of 6 pool matches for the first time. Munster lost the quarter-final against Ulster 16-22, losing just their second match at home in the Heineken Cup. Munster finished third in the 2011-12 RaboDirect Pro12 season, and played Ospreys away in the play-off semi-finals, losing 45-10.

He duly returned to county cricket, and finished his career back at Northampton in 1984, having scored over 22, 000 runs, of which 673 came at the top level of the sport.

That season the club finished second in the league to earn promotion to the Premier Division, and also reached the second round of the FA Cup, beating Wycombe Wanderers 5 – 4 on penalties in a first round replay, before losing 4 – 3 on penalties to Northampton Town in another replay.

Calderwood was given the Nottingham Forest position after Northampton finished 2nd in League Two and were promoted.

Having completed two spells at Northampton Saints, John Surguy finished his career at the Club and continued his prolific points scoring displayed at Franklins Gardens and previously at junior level for nearby Bletchley.

Barnard endured a frustrating 2008 – 09 season due to injuries, despite this he still finished the season as the clubs top scorer and the only player in the squad that season to reach double figures, getting his 10th goal of the campaign away at Northampton Town Southend had only lost once when Barnard has scored.

Although in fact within the boundaries of the parochial parish of Hollowell, Creaton Hospital ( formally the Northampton County Sanatorium ) stood at the bottom of the hill on the other side of the Welford Road.

** Mortimers, Grade II listed, early 18th century earlier than Milton House, which was named after a family who lived there and originally owned by the Hospital of St John at the bottom of Bridge Street in Northampton.

George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''.

** 11 – 0 against Northampton Town, 28 December 1901 ( Southern League )

Instead, he found success as a manager, first at Northampton Town between 1908 and 1912, whom he led to a Southern League title.

With this new talent, in his first season in charge, Chapman led Northampton to eighth place ; with additional new signings, such as inside forward Albert Lewis from Coventry City, he used this as a springboard to take the Southern League title in 1908 – 09, with Lewis finishing as top scorer.

Barker, Mullewa, Nannup, Narembeen, Narrogin, Newdegate, Norseman, Northampton, Northcliffe, Pemberton, Pinjarra, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Southern Cross, Tammin, Three Springs, Toodyay, Wagin, Walpole, Waroona, Williams, Wongan Hills, Yarloop and York

Upon crossing the Lehigh River, PA 329 enters Northampton in Northampton County and becomes 21st Street, crossing a Norfolk Southern railroad line as it heads into commercial areas.

** 8 – 0 against Northampton Town, 24 December 1921 ( Football League Third Division South )

Council Rock Northampton Little League made it to the 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Finals, where they lost 4-0 to Salisbury, Maryland.

The town hosted the Northampton Red Sox in the old Eastern Shore Baseball League.

The rivalry between the Diamonds and Northampton Town occurred between 2004 – 2006, when the two clubs played in League Two together for two seasons.

Chapman was keen to get Northampton Town in to the Football League, but with no automatic promotion or relegation rules at the time this proved very difficult.

He was one of the first managers to consider signing black and foreign players ; as well as signing Walter Tull, one of the first black professionals in the game, for Northampton Town in 1911, he attempted to recruit Austrian international goalkeeper Rudy Hiden for Arsenal in 1930, but was blocked by the Ministry of Labour, after protests from the Players ' Union and the Football League.

" Whereas Mr Edmund Scarburgh, Mr Thomas Johnson, Mr Richard Vaughan, Captain John Dollinge, John Robinson, Toby Norton, Richard Baily, Ambrose Dixon, Richard Hill, Jenkin Price And divers others Inhabitants and free men in the Upper parte of the parish in the Countie of Northampton Did in a Hostile manner ( contrary to the knowne Lawes of Virginia And the League made with the Indians ) upon the 28th day of Aprill last past Rayse a partie of men to the number of fiftie persons with Armes and ammunicon And upon the aforesaid daie marched amonge the Indians with a Resolucon to take or kill the Queene of Pocamoke, shott att Indians, slashed and cut read, Took Indyans prisoner, And bound one of them with a Chayne, which said Accons caused the Indyans To Invade the Countie, to the great danger of our Lives and Estate, It is therefore ordered That the Sherriff shall forthwith Arrest the Bodies of all the abovesaid parties And such other ( upon inquiry ) as hee shall have notice of ( which went out against the indyans upon their Designe ) To the Number of 50 persons and that hee keepe them in his custodie until they enter into bonds to make their personal appearance at James Citty to answer the premisses before the Governor and Council upon th XXIth day of this Instant Moneth ( att the suite of our Sovereign King ).

Division One is at level 10 ( step 6 ) in the football pyramid above four smaller local leagues at the base of the recognized NLS: the Northamptonshire Combination, Northampton Town League, Bedfordshire Football League, and Peterborough & District League.

He was part of the Northampton side that won promotion from League Two, appearing 11 times for the Cobblers and scoring one goal against Notts County.

Bonds made his League debut for Charlton against Northampton Town in February 1965 and became a regular in the first team, going on to make 95 League appearances, scoring one goal, before being signed by Ron Greenwood for West Ham United for a fee of £ 50, 000 in May 1967.

* 29 April 2006 — Northampton Town secure promotion from League Two after beating Chester City 1 – 0.

They compete in the Colonial League along with Deerfield Academy, Choate Rosemary Hall, Loomis Chaffee, Suffield Academy, The Gunnery, Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Cheshire Academy, Willison Northampton and Westminster School.

He was loaned out for much of the 2003 – 04 season to Portsmouth, where he scored once against Everton in four league appearances, with three further goals in the League Cup against Northampton ( 2 ) and Nottingham Forest.

Old Park is the home of Old Cricket Club, who have recently been promoted to Division 5 of the Northampton County Cricket League.

Old Cricket Club also have a 2nd team who are in Division 12 of the Northampton County Cricket League.

After a spell at Northampton Town, Brown moved to Canada to end his playing days with the Toronto Falcons during the 1967 National Professional Soccer League season.