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EARL MORCAR (fl. ro66)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL
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MORCAR (fl. ro66)  , son of
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Earl ./Elfgar,
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brother of
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Edwin, earl of the Mercians . They assisted the Northumbrian to expel
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Tostig, of the
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house of
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Godwin, in 1065 and
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Morcar was chosen earl by the rebels . Harold, Tostig's brother, consented to this
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extension of the
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power of the Mercian house . In spite of this concession, and the help which he gave them against Tostig and Harold Hardrada, the two
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brothers
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left him to fight alone at
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Hastings . After trying to secure the
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crown for their own house, they submitted to
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William, but lost their earldoms . They attempted to raise the
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North in ro68, and failed ignominiously . They were pardoned, but Morcar afterwards joined
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Hereward in the Isle of
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Ely (1071), while Edwin perished in attempting to raise a Welsh
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rebellion . Morcar died in
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prison; at what date is unknown . See E . A .
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Freeman,
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Norman
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Conquest and Wiltiam
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Rufus, vol. i .

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