Alnwick 1093

Category: Battles, General

13th November 1093 on the eastern side of the B6341, just outside Alnwick. Immediately before the roundabout junction to Denwick. Having been treated extremely badly at the Court of King William Rufus when he travelled south to pay homage for his English lands, King Malcolm III of Scotland invaded England in the Winter of 1093 and pillaged the border country as far south as Alnwick. His huge army encamped just north of the town and it was to here that Robert de Mowbray, Governor of Bamburgh Castle, rode out with a small contingent to repel them. Unable to engage in open combat, Mowbray managed a surprise attack on the Scots which threw them into complete confusion. King Malcolm was slain in the battle his son, Edward, was mortally wounded