Qualla: Battle of the Standard https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/v/battle-of-the-standard-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of the Standard https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard Battle of the Standard: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard/ Photo credit Roger W Haworth, CC BY 2.5. It was the cart that gave the battle its name. Archbishop Thurstan of York had rigged a ship's mast onto a wagon, mounted a pyx with the consecrated host at the top, and run up the banners of the minsters of York, Beverley, and Ripon. The whole contraption stood at the centre of the English line on Cowton Moor, a strange ecclesiastical engine borrowed from contemporary Italian warfare where it was called a carroccio. Around it Yorkshire farmers, baronial retinues from the north Midlands, and dismounted Norman knights waited for the Scots. The morning was 22 August 1138. By noon the Scottish army had disintegrated, and a king who had crossed the Tweed expecting easy conquest was riding hard for Carlisle.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/v/battle-of-the-standard-wp/gcwv-battle-of-the-standard-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Standard: Anarchy and Opportunity https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard/ Photo credit AddtInfo, CC BY-SA 4.0. King David I of Scotland had a reasonable case for invading. Henry I of England, who had been David's brother-in-law and patron, had made his nobles swear in 1127 to support his daughter Matilda as heir. David was the first layman to take the oath. When Henry died in 1135, Matild...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/v/battle-of-the-standard-wp/gcwv-battle-of-the-standard-the-cart-and-the-sermon.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Standard: Three Hours https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard/ Photo credit The joy of all things, CC BY 4.0. Early on 22 August the Scots found the English drawn up on open fields two miles north of Northallerton, on Cowton Moor. The Scottish army formed in four lines and attacked. Their first line, unarmoured spearmen mostly drawn from the Galwegians and the Highlands, charged a wall o...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/v/battle-of-the-standard-wp/gcwv-battle-of-the-standard-three-hours.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of the Standard: The Strange Peace https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-standard/ Photo credit The original uploader was Soloist at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. The English did not pursue far. David fell back to Carlisle and quickly reassembled an army. Within a month the two sides had negotiated a truce that left the Scots free to continue besieging Wark Castle, which eventually fell. And despite losing the battle, David received most o...

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