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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: 1138 births, 1138 deaths, 1138 establishments, Conflicts in 1138, Boles aw III Wrymouth, Pembrokeshire, Tancred, King of Sicily, Battle of the Standard, Suero Vermudez, Avempace, Casimir II the Just, Rodrigo Martinez, Gonzalo Pelaez, H j Tokimasa, Ly Th n Tong, Lucy of Bolingbroke, Harrold Priory, Vsevolod of Pskov, Cormac Mac Carthaig, St. Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey, Arwa al-Sulayhi, Siege of Coria, Bourne Abbey, Jedburgh Abbey, 1138 Aleppo earthquake, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Ibn Khafaja, Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Antipope Anacletus II, Fischingen Abbey, Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, Naratheinkha, List of state leaders in 1138, Amhlaoibh Mor mac Fir Bhisigh, Constance of Sicily, Somesvara III, Simon I, Duke of Lorraine, Cannington Nunnery, David the Scot, Gerard of Clairvaux, Tuckelhausen Charterhouse, Tancred, Prince of Bari, Battle of Clitheroe, Ermengarde of Zutphen, Baldwin I of Ramla, Robert I, Count of Conversano, Rudolf of St Trond, Christian of Clogher, Pairis Abbey, Ko uty, Taira no Shigemori, Alcester Abbey, Jagadhekamalla II, Fujiwara no Narichika. Excerpt: The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, in which English forces repelled a Scottish army, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire. The Scottish forces were led by King David I of Scotland. The English were commanded by William of Aumale. King Stephen of England (fighting rebel barons in the south) had sent a small force (largely mercenaries), but the English army was mainly local militia and baronial retinues from Yorkshire and the north Midlands. Archbishop Thurstan of York had exerted himself greatly to raise the army, preaching that to withstand the Scots was to do God's work. The centre of the English position was therefore marked by a mast (mounted upon a cart...
