Arkil Morel

• Birth: 1055 - Bearley, Dunbar, Burgh, Scotland
• Death: 1095 - Argyll of the Clan Fife, Scotland
• Wife: Sigrida of Yorkshire
• Daughter: Sybil Morel. Married Gospatrick ll (d 1138), son of Gospatrick & Aethelreda
• Seneschal of Lennox - Mor
• Arkil MOREL (MORE) aka Arkyl (Arkill) of YORKSHIRE; Thane in NORTHUMBRIA; (fled to Scotland after Norman invasion); (Sigrida's 3rd husband), Born: abt. 1015 Died: abt. 1095 Wives/Partners: Sigrida of YORKSHIRE ; (NN), 2nd wife
• Arkil the son of Ecgfrid" whose son was "Cospatric…[who married] the daughter of Dolfin the son of Tolfin, by whom he begot Cospatric who of late ought to have fought with Waltheof the son of Eilaf." (Simeon of Durham)

Symeon of Durham. De obsessione Dunelmi (late 11th or early 12th century) says:

"'Ecgfritha, the daughter of bishop Ealdhun, whom earl Uchtred sent away, became the wife of a certain thegn in Yorkshire, namely, Kilvert, son of Ligwulf; their daughter, Sigrida, became the wife of Arkil, son of Ecgfrith, and she bore him a son named Gospatric.'" (Source: Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England)

Arkyll Mor, Northumbrian lord, 1010 - 1095

• Suffix: Northumbrian lord
• Birth: Abt 1010 [1]
• Gender: Male
• Occupation: Aft 1068 Levenaux (Lennox)
• Senescal of the Lennox
• Alt. Death: Aft 1070 [1]
• Name: Arkil More (or Morel) [1]
• Name: Ulkil [2]
• Died: Abt 1095

Father: Ecgfrith, Thane in Northumbria, b. Abt 990

Family 1 with Sigrida

Children

• 1. Cospatric

Family 2 Unknown

Children

• 1. Sybil Morel, of Bearley
• 2. Alwyn Mor MacArkyl, b. Abt 1070

Ancient Bingley: or, Bingley, its History and Scenery, by Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall), b. 1845

Page 61
Gospatric, third son of Uchtred, and Earl of Northumberland, was murdered by order of Queen Eadgith in 10G5, for her brother Tostig's sake. He had two kinsmen, cousins, of the same name but exact -relationship unknown. One made peace with the Conqueror, but had to withdraw to Scotland for safety, and became ancestor of the Earls of Dunbar. He was buried at Durham. The other cousin, Gospatric, son of Arkill, a thane or noble, held properties in Domesday Survey. His aged father, the thane, made a treaty of peace with the Conqueror in 1068, but joined his relative Earl Gospatric, Merlesweyn, Edgar Atheling, and others, at York in rebellion, 1069. Arkill fled to Scotland, and his son Gospatric would have been slain had not the King, who had had him as hostage some time, formed an attachment to him. He was the only Anglian who retained any of his possessions in Yorkshire. His mother was Sigfrida, daughter of the Yorkshire thane Kilvert son of Ligulf. Gospatric fitz Arkill married a daughter of Dolfin son of Thorfin, and had sons, Gospatric, Thurstan, Dolfin, Uctred, and Thorfin, all great men in after date, and progenitors of landed proprietors in a smaller degree.

Notes

1 - Arkyll, son of Aykfrith, a Saxon lord who had possessed a large estate in Northumberland. Having played a major role in an unsuccessful revolt against William the Conqueror, Arkyll fled in 1068 to the safety of Scotland.

2 - A Northumbrian chief who fled to Scotland to escape the devastations of William the Conqueror, recieved from Malcom Canmore the custody of the Lennox district, and became the founder of the family bearing that title.

3 - Although there is no alternative option for parents it is unlikely to be the ones given here.This disagreement between sources is thought to arise because of the difficulty in distinguishing between the various Maldreds, Uchtreds, and Cospatricks who were powerful in the north of England around this period, some of whom were related to each other by blood and others by marriage.

4 - Whilst it is possible that we are confusing two different Arkils, it is likely that this is the Arkil whom some web sites describe as a brother or nephew of Robert de Mowbray . He fled from the Norman invaders into Scotland about 1070.

• m(1) . Sigrida (dau of Kilvert), It is thought likely that Arkil married more than once.
• m(2). Unknown

5 - His name is recorded as: Arkil three times; Archill three times; Archil thirteen times; Arcill once (in the Book of Deer); and Arch- once. Arkil is an Old Danish name, and it is thought that the name Alfwin represents the Old English name ¥lfwine, although in England the name appears to have been borrowed into Old Danish as early as the 11th century. William Buchanan of Auchmar stated that Alwyn MacArchill was the son of Arkill, a contemporary of the Scots kings Edgar and Alexander I, and a person of note during their reigns. Buchanan stated that Arkill was the son of "Aluin, or Alcuin", a younger son of Kenneth III.

Alwyn MacArchill appears as a witness on numerous charters of David I, down to at least the year 1154. This man's father was thought to have been Archillus, son of Aykfrith; and to have been a Northumbrian magnate, who was an exile of William the Conqueror. It was thought that this Archill/Archillus went to Scotland in 1070, where he received lands in the Lennox. Skene, however, stated that there was nothing to support this theory, other than the similarity in names. Alwyn MacArchill never appears in records with a title of earl; and that he does not appear in records after the year 1155. Also, Paul noted that the mediaeval English chronicler Simeon of Durham only notes that Archill was made an exile; he does not mention him passing into Scotland.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_MacArchill]

6 - Earl Ealdred had five daughters, of whom three were called Aelfflaed. the fourth Ealdgyth. and the fifth Aetheldryth. One of these Aelfflaeds and her husband, Earl Siward claimed the lands as hers by hereditary right - Barmpton. Skirningham. Elton, Carlton, School Aycliffe, and Monk Heselden which Earl Siward, her husband, gave her; and he gave to his son the earldom of the Northumbrians. After the death of Earl Siward and Countess Aelfflaed, war erupted and these lands were devastated. A long time after, Arkil son of Eegfrith, who had married Sigrid daughter of Kilvert and Ecgfrida, daughter of Bishop Ealdun, seized these devastated lands for himself and settled down on them. When his wife Sigrid died, he gave to St Cuthbert, Monk Heselden, School Aycliffe, and Carlton which the church still possesses. Arkil, son of Fridegist, Earl Eadulf, and Arkil, son of Ecgfrith all had Sigrid as a wife. Afterwards, King William came to England and Arkil fled into exile.

• Source-A Study of Marriage and Murder in Eleventh-century Northumbria:Issue 82 By Christopher J. Morris] [3]

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