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Tostig appears to have received little local support, and further raids into Lincolnshire and near the River Humber met with no more success, so Tostig retreated to Scotland, where he remained for a time.
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Tostig and appears
Tostig appears to have governed in Northumbria with some difficulty.
Tostig and have
Tostig seems to have been a favourite with the king and queen, who demanded that the revolt be suppressed, but neither Harold nor anyone else would fight to support Tostig.
Tostig was said to have been heavy handed with those who resisted his rule, including the murder of several members of leading Northumbrian families.
At Sandwich Tostig is said to have enlisted and impressed sailors.
At Sandwich Tostig is said to have enlisted and press ganged sailors before sailing north where, after battling some of the northern earls and also visiting Scotland, he eventually joined Hardrada ( possibly in Scotland or at the mouth of the river Tyne ).
Tostig and received
King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Tostig and local
Harold's brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada invaded Northumbria in September 1066, and defeated the local forces under Morcar and Edwin at the Battle of Fulford near York.
Their king was a personal friend of Tostig, and Tostig's unpopularity made it difficult to raise local levies to combat them.
Tostig and support
With him was Earl Tostig, who had promised him support.
Harold, perhaps to secure the support of Edwin and Morcar in his bid for the throne, supported the rebels, and persuaded King Edward to replace Tostig with Morcar.
On the accession of Harold Godwinson after the death of Edward the Confessor, Hardraada invaded Northumbria with the support of Harold's brother Tostig Godwinson, and was defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge three weeks before William I's victory at the Battle of Hastings.
Harald's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who threw his support behind the Norwegian king's bid for the throne.
Tostig and further
Arriving off the English coast in September he was joined by further forces recruited in Flanders and Scotland by Tostig Godwinson.
In 1066 Tostig invaded Mercia, after mounting raids further south, but was repulsed by Edwin and Morcar and fled to Scotland.
Tostig and into
Tostig went into exile in Flanders, along with his wife Judith, who was the daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders.
Due to a doubling of taxation by Tostig in 1065 that threatened to plunge England into civil war, Harold supported Northumbrian rebels against his brother, Tostig, and replaced him with Morcar.
This strengthened his acceptability as Edward's successor, but fatally split his own family, driving Tostig into alliance with King Harald Hardrada (" Hard Ruler ") of Norway.
Tostig was helped into the earldom of Northumbria, thus controlling the north.
Morcar was confirmed as earl and Tostig forced into exile.
Tostig and Lincolnshire
Threatened by Harold's fleet, Tostig moved north and raided in East Anglia and Lincolnshire, but he was driven back to his ships by the brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria.
Tostig and near
The English earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria were defeated by the invading forces of Harald Hardrada and Tostig at the Battle of Fulford near York on 20 September.
The Battle of Fulford took place at the place identified by Symeon of Durham as the village of Fulford near York in England, on 20 September 1066, when King Harald III of Norway-also known as Harald Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson, his English ally, fought and defeated the Northern Earls Edwin and Morcar.
Tostig and Humber
With Hardrada's aid, Tostig sailed up the Humber and defeated Morcar and Edwin at Gate Fulford.
According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle ( Manuscripts ' D ' and ' E ') Tostig became Hadrada's vassal, and then with 300 or so longships sailed up the Humber estuary bottling the English fleet in the river Swale and then landed at Riccall on the Ouse on 24th.
Tostig and met
They met Harold at Northampton, and Tostig accused Harold before the king of conspiring with the rebels.
Tostig and with
Journeying with him was Tostig, another son of Earl Godwin, who was now earl of Northumbria.
After defeating Harald Hardrada and Tostig, Harold left much of his army in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.
Harald Hardrada was impressed with the rider and asked Tostig his name, Tostig replied that the rider was none other than Harold Godwinson.
In October 1065 Harold's brother, Tostig, the earl of Northumbria, was hunting with the king when his thegns in Northumbria rebelled against his rule, which they claimed was oppressive, and killed some 200 of his followers.
After a horrific battle, both Hardrada and Tostig along with most of the Norwegians were killed.
Tostig was at odds with his elder brother Harold ( who had been elected king ), having been ousted from his position as Earl of Northumbria and exiled in 1065, and had mounted a series of abortive attacks on England in the spring of 1066.
Completely outflanked, Hardrada at this point was killed with an arrow to his wind pipe and Tostig slain, the Norwegian army disintegrated and was virtually annihilated.
In early 1066, Harold's exiled brother Tostig Godwinson raided southeastern England with a fleet he had recruited in Flanders, later joined by other ships from Orkney.
Harold, after defeating his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada in the north, left much of his forces in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest of his army south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.
Also, the Vita Edwardi, otherwise sympathetic to Tostig, states that he had ' repressed Northumbrians with the heavy yoke of his rule '.
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.
Tostig and no
He had allied with King Harald of Norway and possibly Duke William of Normandy but history has left us no record of what role Tostig saw for himself if the invasions were successful.
Tostig and so
Tostig was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 and so was not able to re-found the monastery as he had intended.
William was not ready to get involved so Tostig sailed from the Cotentin Peninsula, but because of storms ended up in Norway, where he successfully enlisted the help of Harold Hardrada.
Tostig and retreated
He escaped, but when Harold and Tostig attacked again the following year, he retreated and was killed by Welsh enemies.
Tostig and Scotland
Tostig spent the summer of 1066 in Scotland.
In 1066 Tostig raided in Mercia but was repulsed by Edwin and Morcar and fled to Scotland.
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