This position was preceded by the Kings of Jorvik and followed by the Dukes of York. The title Duke of York is a title of nobility usually given to the second son of the British monarch, unless the title is already held by an earlier monarchs son who is still alive. ...

• The first earl was Oslac of Mercia during the reign of King Edgar of England.
• His appointment was followed by Thored under King Edward the Martyr.
• Uhtred under King Ethelred II of England.
• Norwegian Eric Hlathir under King Canute the Great of England.
• Sigurd the Dane under King Harthacanute of England.
• Tostig Godwinson of Wessex under King Harold Godwinson of England
• Morcar of Mercia under King Edgar Ætheling of England.
• William Malet and Robert Fitz Richard held Yorkshire under King William I of England.
• During the reign of King Stephen of England, William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albermarle became the last Earl of York. King Henry II of England abolished the earldom of York, as a result of The Anarchy

Mercia, sometimes spelled Mierce, was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, in what is now England, in the region of the Midlands, with its heart in the valley of the River Trent and its tributary streams. ... This article is about the king of England. ... King Edward the Martyr (circa 962 - March 18, 978/979) succeeded his father Edgar as King of England in 975, but was murdered after a reign of only a few years. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den Store) (994/995 – November 12, 1035) was king of England, Denmark and Norway and governor or overlord of Schleswig and Pomerania. ... Sigurd the Dane, also known as Siward, was an English nobleman in the Eleventh Century, and the Earl of Northumbria. ... Harthacanute (sometimes Hardicanute, Hardecanute; Danish Hardeknud, Canute the Hardy) (1018/1019–June 8, 1042) was a King of Denmark (1035–1042) and England (1035–1037, 1040–1042). ... Tostig Godwinson (~1026- September 25, 1066), Earl of Northumbria, was son to Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his second wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir. ... Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England. ... Name Harold Godwinson Lived c. ... Morcar, Earl of Northumbria (fl. ... Edgar Ætheling (c. ... William I ( 1027 – September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ... Stephen (1096 – October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... Henry II of England, depicted in Cassells History of England, Century Edition, published circa 1902 Henry II (March 5, 1133 – July 6, 1189) ruled as Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and as King of England (1154–1189) and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland, eastern Ireland... The Anarchy in English history commonly names the period of civil war and unsettled government that occurred during the reign (1135–1154) of King Stephen of England. ...

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