The First Battle of Corbridge, in 915 according to the chronicle of the diocese of Durham (Historia de Sancto Cuthberto), was the result of two years of raiding the coast of Northumbria (from 913). The date of the battle is uncertain. In a battle in the Irish Sea in 914, Rögvaldr Guðrøðrsson defeated his rival Barðr Óttarsson. In the same year, Rögvaldr invaded Britain and burned Dunblane.

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  • The First Battle of Corbridge, in 915 according to the chronicle of the diocese of Durham (Historia de Sancto Cuthberto), was the result of two years of raiding the coast of Northumbria (from 913). The date of the battle is uncertain. In a battle in the Irish Sea in 914, Rögvaldr Guðrøðrsson defeated his rival Barðr Óttarsson. In the same year, Rögvaldr invaded Britain and burned Dunblane. Rögvaldr apparently expelled the Bernician aristocracy from Lothian, and Ealdred of Bamburgh fled to the court of King Causantín II of Scotland. Finally, Causantín II allied with Ealdred. Together they met the invaders, under their leader Rögvaldr, at Corbridge. The allies were defeated and, according to the Historia, the land north of the River Tees was divided between Rögvaldr's followers. There was a second Battle of Corbridge, perhaps indistinguishable from the first.
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  • The First Battle of Corbridge, in 915 according to the chronicle of the diocese of Durham (Historia de Sancto Cuthberto), was the result of two years of raiding the coast of Northumbria (from 913). The date of the battle is uncertain. In a battle in the Irish Sea in 914, Rögvaldr Guðrøðrsson defeated his rival Barðr Óttarsson. In the same year, Rögvaldr invaded Britain and burned Dunblane.
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  • First Battle of Corbridge
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