Who's Who In Leeds

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Who's who in Leeds

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first_name First Name	surname Surname	date_information Date Information	display_slot Display Slot	academics_and_educators Academics And Educators	country_estates_and_landowners Country Estates And Landowners	born_outside_england Born Outside England	good_deeds_and_benefactors Good Deeds And Benefactors	religion Religion	women Women	war_and_military War And Military	writers Writers	biography Biography
Cartimandua	Brigantes (Queen of)	active 43-69AD	2	X	X				X	X		Queen of the Iron-Age tribe called the Brigantes, who lived across northern England. Although their capital was at Aldborough (North Yorkshire), there is evidence of Iron Age sites across Leeds. Cartimandua supported the Romans.
Ceretic	Elmet (King of)	c560-617AD	10	X	X					X		Ceretic was the last King of Elmet. He was killed defending Elmet against the invading Northumbrians led by King Edwin.
Edwin	Northumbria (King of)	c.586-633	1		X		X	X		X		In his ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’ Bede states that King Edwin of Northumbria occupied the Kingdom of Elmet and erected a church located in "...regione quae vocatur Loidis", the region known as Loidis (Leeds).
Penda	Mercia (King of)	died 655 AD	1		X					X		Penda, king of Mercia, burnt down the city of Campodunum, possibly Leeds. Penda was killed in 655 at the Battle of Winwaed, possibly at the site of Whinmoor, Leeds. Stained glass window in Leeds Church commemorates the Northumbrian victory over pagan Penda.
	Bede	673-735	1					X			X	Bede was a Benedictine monk, author and scholar from Jarrow. The first mention of Leeds (or Loidis) appeared in 730 AD in Bede’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’
Saint	Cadroe	died 976	6					X				According to an 11th century manuscript Loidis was a border town in the 10th century between the Viking kingdom of Jorvik and the Welsh speaking Kingdom of Strathclyde. The two kings are said to have met at Loidis to ensure safe passage for Saint Cadroe from one kingdom to another
Ilbert	De Lacy	active 1066-1085	6		X	X				X		Norman Baron who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 and was granted lands from Lincolnshire to Lancashire, including Leeds. Based at Pontefract. Said to have built at castle at Mill Hill, Leeds. Seems to have protected his lands from the "harrying of the north".
Ralph	Paynell	died 1109	6		X	X	X	X				Norman baron granted Manor of Leeds by the de Lacy family of Pontefract Castle. Founded the Priory of the Holy Trinity at York and gave to this priory the churches of Leeds and Adel in 1089.
Henry	De Lacy	1070-1123	8		X		X	X		X		Norman Baron of Pontefract and Lord of Blackburnshire. He secured land in Kirkstall for the Cistercian monks of Fountains Abbey to establish a daughter house (Kirkstall Abbey). His donation to the Cistercians was in thanks for recovering from a serious illness
Richard	De Courcy	died 1152	9		X					X		Lord of the manor of Leeds. Inherited the Leeds estates of William Paynell (married William's daughter Alice). Led military contingent of Leeds men against the Scots at the battle of the Standard (nr North Allerton) in 1138.


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