Everything about The Treaty Of Falaise totally explained
The
Treaty of Falaise was an agreement made in December
1174 by the captive
William I,
King of Scots, and the
English King
Henry II.
Having been captured at the
Battle of Alnwick, during an invasion of
Northumbria, William was being held in
Falaise in
Normandy, while Henry sent an army north and took several Scottish castles, including
Berwick, and
Edinburgh. With no heir, William had no option but to bargain for release, or see the end of the Scottish line of kings.
William therefore had to swear an oath of allegiance to his neighbouring monarch. English soldiers continued garrisonning Scotland's castles, and Scotland was heavily taxed to pay for their upkeep.
The treaty was cancelled 15 years later when
Richard the Lionheart, the new English king effectively sold southern Scotland back to the Scottish king to help fund Richard's
Crusade in the
Holy Land
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