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Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The ealdordom was a successor of the Norse Kingdom of York. In the seventh century, the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira were united in the kingdom of Northumbria, but this was destroyed by the Vikings in 867. Southern Northumbria, the former Deira, then became the Viking kingdom of York, while the rulers of Bamburgh commanded territory roughly equivalent to the northern kingdom of Bernicia. In 1006 Uhtred the Bold, ruler of Bamburgh, by command of Æthelred the Unready became ealdorman in the south, temporarily re-uniting much of the area of Northumbria into a single jurisdiction. Uhtred was murdered in 1016, and Cnut then appointed Eric of Hlathir ealdorman at York, but Uhtred's dynasty held onto Bamburgh. After the Norman Conquest the region was divided into multiple smaller baronies, one of which was the earldom of Northumberland, with others like the earldoms of York and numerous autonomous liberties such as the County Palatine of Durham and Liberty of Tynedale.

West Saxon- and Danish-Era ealdormen

Post-Conquest ealdormen

Anglo-Norman-Era baronial title

v t e Earldoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland (extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit)

A: Abercorn Aberdeen Abergavenny Abingdon Aboyne Ailesbury Airlie Airth Albemarle Aldborough Alexander of Hillsborough Alexander of Tunis Altamont Amherst Ancaster Ancram Anglesey Angus Annandale Annandale and Hartfell Annesley Antrim Ardglass Ardmenach Argyll Arlington Armagh Arran (Ireland) Arran (Scotland) Arran and Cambridge Arran, Lanark, and Selkirk Arundel Ashburnham Athlone Atholl Attlee Auckland Aumale Ava Avon Avondale Aylesford /// B: Balcarres Baldwin of Bewdley Balfour Banbury Bandon Bangor Bantry Barrymore Bath Bathurst Beaconsfield Beatty Beauchamp Beaulieu Bective Bedford Belfast Bellamont Bellomont Belmore Belvedere Berkeley Berkhampsted Berkshire Bessborough Beverley Bindon Birkenhead Blessington Bolingbroke Bothwell Bradford Brandon Brassey Breadalbane and Holland Brecknock Brentford Bridgewater Bristol Brooke Brownlow Bruce Buccleuch Buchan Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burford Burlington Bute Buxton /// C: Cadogan Cairns Caithness Caledon Callendar Cambridge Camden Campbell and Cowall Camperdown Canning Carbery Cardigan Carhampton Carlingford Carlisle Carnarvon Carnwath Carrick Carrington Carysfort Cassilis Castle Stewart Castlehaven Castlemaine Castleton Cathcart Catherlough Cavan Cave of Richmond Cawdor Charlemont Charleville Chatham Chester Chesterfield Chichester Cholmondeley Clanbrassill Clancare Clancarty Clanconnel Clanricarde Clanwilliam Clare Clarence Clarendon Clermont Cleveland Clinton Clonmell Compton Coningsby Connaught Conway Conyngham Cork Cornwall Cornwallis Cottenham Courtown Coventry Cowley Cowper Cranbrook Craven Crawford Crewe Cromartie Cromer Cumberland Curzon of Kedleston /// D: Dalhousie Dalkeith Danby Darlington Darnley Dartmouth Dartrey de Grey De La Warr de Montalt Deloraine Denbigh Derby Derwentwater Desart Desmond Devon Devonshire Digby Dirletoun Doncaster Donegall Donoughmore Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Downe Drogheda Drumlanrig and Sanquhar Dublin Ducie Dudley Dufferin Dumbarton Dumfries Dunbar Dundee Dundonald Dunfermline Dungannon Dunmore Dunraven and Mount-Earl Durham Dysart /// E: East Anglia Effingham Egerton Eglinton Egmont Egremont Eldon Elgin Ellenborough Ellesmere Eltham Ely Enniskillen Enzie Erne Erroll Essex Euston Exeter /// F: Falmouth Fareham Farnham Farquhar Fauconberg Ferrers Feversham Fife Findlater Fingall FitzHardinge FitzWalter Fitzwilliam Forfar Fortescue Forth /// G: Gainsborough Galloway Galway Gifford Glamorgan Glandore Glasgow Glencairn Glengall Gloucester Godolphin Gosford Gower Gowran Gowrie Graham of Belford Granard Grandison Grantham Granville Greenwich Grey Grosvenor Guilford /// H: Haddington Haddo Haig Halifax Halsbury Harborough Harcourt Hardwicke Harewood Harold Harrington Harrowby Hartfell Hereford Hertford Hillsborough Holderness Holland Home Hopetoun Howe Howth Huntingdon Huntly Huntly and Enzie Hyndford /// I: Iddesleigh Ilay Ilchester Inchcape Inchiquin Innes Inverness Irvine Iveagh /// J: Jellicoe Jermyn Jersey Jowitt /// K: Kedleston Kellie Kelso Kendal Kenmare Kennington Kent Ker Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Kilmarnock Kilmorey Kilmuir Kimberley Kincardine Kingston Kingston-upon-Hull Kinnoull Kinrara Kintore Kitchener /// L: Lanark Lancaster Landaff Lanesborough Lathom Lauderdale Leicester Leinster Leitrim Lennox Leslie Leven Lewes Lichfield Ligonier Limerick Lincoln Lindsay Lindsey Linlithgow Lisburne Listowel Liverpool Lloyd-George of Dwyfor Londesborough Londonderry Longford Lonsdale Loreburn Lothian (Dunbar) Lothian (17th century) Loudoun Louth Lovelace Lucan Ludlow Lytton /// M: Macartney Macclesfield Macduff Madeley Malmesbury Malton Manchester Mansfield Manvers Mar Mar and Garioch March Marchmont Marischal Marlborough Massereene Mayo Meath Medina Melfort Melville Menteith Mercia Merioneth Mexborough Middlesex Middleton Midleton Midlothian Milford Haven Milltown Minto Moira Monmouth Montagu Montgomery Montrose Moray Morley Mornington Morton Mount Alexander Mount Cashell Mount Charles Mount Edgcumbe Mountbatten of Burma Mountnorris Mountrath Mulgrave Munster /// N: Nelson Newburgh Newcastle Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newport Nithsdale Norbury Norfolk Normanton Northampton Northbrook Northesk Northington Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nugent /// O: O'Neill Offaly Ogle Onslow Orford Orkney Ormelie Ormond (Ireland) Ormonde (Scotland) Orrery Ossory Oxford Oxford and Asquith Oxford and Mortimer /// P: Panmure Peel Pembroke Percy Perth Peterborough Plymouth Pomfret Portarlington Portland Portmore Portsmouth Poulett Powis /// Q: Queensberry /// R: Radnor Ranelagh Ranfurly Rathdowne Rathfarnham Ravensworth Rawdon Reading Redesdale Richmond Ripon Rivers Roberts Rochester Rochford Rockingham Rocksavage Roden Romney Ronaldshay Roscommon Rosebery Ross Rosse Rosslyn Rothes Roxburghe Ruglen Russell Rutland /// S: St Albans St Aldwyn St Andrews St Germans St Maur St Vincent Salisbury Sandwich Scarbrough Scarsdale Seafield Seaforth Sefton Selborne Selkirk Shaftesbury Shannon Sheffield Shelburne Sheppey Shipbrook Shrewsbury Snowdon Solway Somers Somerset Sondes Southampton Southesk Spencer Stafford Stair Stamford Stanhope Stirling Stockton Stradbroke Strafford Strange Strathearn Stratherne Strathmore and Kinghorne Strathtay and Strathardle Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutherland Swinton Sydney /// T: Talbot Tankerville Tarras Temple Temple of Stowe Teviot Thanet Thomond Tinmouth Tipperary Torrington Totness Traquair Tullibardine Tweeddale Tylney Tyrconnel Tyrconnell Tyrone /// U: Ulster Upper Ossory Uxbridge /// V: Vane Verney Verulam /// W: Waldegrave Walsingham Wandesford Warrington Warwick Waterford Wavell Wellington Wemyss Wessex Westmeath Westmorland Wharncliffe Wharton Whitworth Wicklow Wigtown Willingdon Wilmington Wilton Wiltshire Winchester Winchilsea Windsor Winterton Winton Wintoun Woolton Worcester Wycombe /// Y: Yarborough Yarmouth Ypres /// Z: Zetland

See also

• List of monarchs of Northumbria
• Rulers of Bamburgh
• Earl of York
• Earl of Northumberland

Notes

1. Aird, William M. (2004). "Gospatric, earl of Northumbria (d. 1073x5)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11110. Retrieved 25 August 2013. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. Barlow, Frank (1988). The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216 (Fourth ed.). New York: Longman. p. 352. ISBN 0-582-49504-0.

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