In the eighth century the Northmen began their incursions

Mary's Abbey, once one of the wealthiest and proudest religious houses in the North of England, but with little now left but portions of the foundations, a gateway, and the north and west walls of the nave. This abbey was founded in the eleventh century, and it was from here that the exiled monks who built Fountains Abbey were driven out. This ruin has been in its present condition during over two hundred and fifty years. For more than three centuries Eboracum was a great Roman city. Here came the emperor Severus tiffany wholesale and died in 211, his body being cremated and the ashes conveyed to Rome.
When Find Your Perfect Tiffany Engagement Ring the empire was divided, Britain fell to the share of Constantius Chlorus, and he made Eboracum his home, dying there in 305. Constantine the Great, his son, was first proclaimed emperor at Eboracum. When the Romans departed evil days fell upon York the barbarians destroyed it, and it was not till 627 that it reappeared in history, when Eadwine, King of Northumbria, was baptized there by St. Paulinus on Easter Day, a little wooden church being built for the purpose. Then began its ecclesiastical eminence, for Paulinus was the first Archbishop of York, beginning a line of prelates that has continued unbroken since, and York was the centre from which Christianity spread through Northern England.
In the eighth century the Northmen began their incursions, and from spoilers ultimately became settlers. York prospered, being thronged with Tiffany Jewelry 1837 Danish merchants, and in the tenth century it had thirty thousand population. In King Harold's reign the Northmen attacked and captured the town, when Harold surprised and defeated them, killing their leader Tostig, but china wholesale no sooner had he won the victory than he had to hasten southward to meet William the nike shoes wholesale Norman, and be in turn vanquished and slain. York resisted William, but he ultimately conquered the city and built a castle there, but being rebellious the people jewelry wholesale attacked Tiffany Inspired Palm Tree Necklace the castle.

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