Qualla: Battle of Stracathro https://qualla.com/battle-of-stracathro en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Stracathro https://qualla.com/battle-of-stracathro Battle of Stracathro: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-stracathro/ On the 16th of April 1130, David I of Scotland was in England, sitting as a judge at the court of Henry I and attending the dedication of Canterbury Cathedral. He was a long way from home, and his enemies knew it. While he was south of the border, an army of five thousand men - so the chronicler Orderic Vitalis tells us - marched out of Moray and Ross to dethrone him. They got as far as a flat strip of land beside the River North Esk, three miles north of Brechin in Angus, before David's loyalist forces caught up with them. By the end of the day one of the two rebel leaders was dead, and the kingdom David had only briefly left was still his.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/4/battle-of-stracathro-wp/gfn4-battle-of-stracathro-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Stracathro: Two Names for a Throne https://qualla.com/battle-of-stracathro/ The rebellion was led by two men, both of whom believed they had better claims to the Scottish crown than David. The first was Mael Coluim mac Alaxandair, the illegitimate son of Alexander I of Scotland - David's elder brother and predecessor. The second was Oengus of Moray, call...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/4/battle-of-stracathro-wp/gfn4-battle-of-stracathro-five-thousand-warriors.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Stracathro: What Happens to Losers https://qualla.com/battle-of-stracathro/ The contemporary accounts disagree wildly on the scale of the killing. Some report as many as four thousand of the rebels dead; others suggest a much smaller engagement. The one fact everyone agrees on is that Oengus of Moray fell in the battle, leaving Malcolm to take up the ban...

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