Siward Barn (Old English: Sigeweard Bearn) was an 11th-century English thegn and landowner-warrior. He appears in the extant sources in the period following the Norman Conquest of England, joining the northern resistance to William the Conqueror by the end of the 1060s. Siward's resistance continued until his capture on the Isle of Ely alongside Æthelwine, Bishop of Durham, Earl Morcar, and Hereward ("the Wake") as cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Siward and his confiscated properties in central and northern England were mentioned in Domesday Book, and from this it is clear that he was one of the main antecessors of Henry de Ferrers, father of Robert de Ferrers, the first Earl of Derby.
Following his capture in 1071, he was imprisoned. This incarceration lasted until 1087, when a guilt-ridden King William, in expectation of his own death, ordered Siward's release. Firm evidence of Siward's later life is non-existent, but some historians have argued that he took up a career in the Varangian Guard at Constantinople, in the service of the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. The sources upon which this theory is based also allege that Siward led a party of English colonists to the Black Sea, who renamed their conquered territory New England.
SiwardBarn (Old English: Sigeweard Bearn) was an 11th-century English thegn and landowner-warrior. He appears in the extant sources in the period following...
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at Durham; the Northumbrian rebellion was joined by Edgar, Gospatric, SiwardBarn and other rebels who had taken refuge in Scotland. The castellan of York...
headquarters. His major landholdings, however, were those of the Anglo-Saxon SiwardBarn, following a revolt in 1071, including more land in Berkshire and Essex...
Staller. Finally, after the 1071 revolt, he was awarded the lands of SiwardBarn in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire as well...
"homestead of Assi". Before the Norman Conquest, the village was held by SiwardBarn. The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as being made up of 78...
reign of Edward the Confessor in the middle of the 11th century, one SiwardBarn held the manor of Stanford. The Domesday Book of 1086 records that after...
Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the manor of Lechlade was held by SiwardBarn, a grandson of Edward the Confessor. Later owners included Isabel, wife...
the Domesday Book. From this we know that the lord of the manor was SiwardBarn before the Norman Conquest; later, in 1086, it was Geoffrey de la Guerche...
population was recorded as 14 households with the local lord in 1066 being SiwardBarn. During the First World War a new aerodrome was opened in nearby Stow...
acres (20,000 m2) of meadow. In 1066 lordship of the manor was held by SiwardBarn, this transferred to Odo of Bayeux in 1086, with Ivo Taillebois as Tenant-in-chief...
the south of England, Siward the north, and Leofric and his son Ælfgar the centre. This state of affairs came to an end when Siward, Earl of Northumbria...
difficulty. On Siward's death in 1055, the king of England, Edward the Confessor, chose a West Saxon to govern Yorkshire, in place of Siward's son, Waltheof...
de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle aided by William d'Aubigny, Sir Richard Siward, Henry de Hastings and William de Hastings.[citation needed]. In 1221, after...
Earl of Mercia, to strengthen their hands in the county at the expense of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. They may have also created St Wulfram's Church either...
villagers, 2 freemen, 3 fisheries, and 7½ ploughlands. The lords in 1066 were Siward and Thorgisl. By 1086 the land had passed to Roger as Lord of the Manor...
dependent on Ramsey founded c1017 by Earl Adelmus; church dedicated by Bishop Siward dissolved 1539; house built on site St Ive St Neots Priory Benedictine monks...
of the Derwent at Shottle and Bradley was held pre-conquest by Gamal and Siward respectively, and both afterwards by Henry de Ferrers. Bradley was an earlier...
(formerly PastScape). Retrieved 1 January 2012. Historic England. "GREAT BARN (522682)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 1 January 2012...
dependent on Ramsey founded c1017 by Earl Adelmus; church dedicated by Bishop Siward dissolved 1539; house built on site St Ive 52°19′19″N 0°04′18″W / 52.3220699°N...
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