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Border reivers

Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border. They included both English and Scottish people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality. They operated in a culture of legalised raiding and feuding. Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the House of…

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Etymology

Background

The medieval Anglo-Scottish Borderlands

Wars of Scottish Independence

The years of truces

The early Tudor Period

Henry VIII, James IV, and the Battle of Flodden

The Heyday (1513–1603)

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Borderers as soldiers

Dwellings and fortifications

Law and order

Border Surnames

Elaborate nicknames

In literature

In modern times

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Border reivers

Nodes503
Edges502
Triples370
Avg. degree2
Density0.003976
Components1

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Border reivers

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related to Sources · 122
Border reivers → Albion's Seed, Alistair, America, Andy, Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers, Angus, Anthony, Aubrey Maria, Birlinn, Border Mafia, Border Societies, Breaking, British, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carey, Clarendon Press, Co, Cynthia
related to Borderers as soldiers · 36
Border reivers → After, Ancrum Moor, As, At, Bands, Battle, Bold Buccleugh, Border, Border Horse, Borderers, Calais, Charles, Duke, English, Europe, Flodden, France, Henry VIII, Holy Roman Emperor, Ireland
related to In modern times · 26
Border reivers → Battle, Border, Borders, Cumbria, Despite, Duns, English, Hawick, Kilkeel, Newspapers, Northern Ireland, Northumbria, Otterburn, Pacification, Reiver, Reiver's Lass, Reivers, Reiving, Schomberg Society, Scotland
related to Wars of Scottish Independence · 22
Border reivers → An, Bannockburn, Battle, Bishop, Border, Borders, Durham, Edward II, Edward II's, England, English, Kellawe, Richard, Schalvadours, Schavadours, Schavaldours, Scottish, The, The Schavaldours, Whickham
related to Etymology · 19
Border reivers → All, Borders, England, George Ridpath, London, Middle Ages, Middle English, Minstrelsy, Northumbrian, Old English, Reive, Scotland, Scots, Scottish Border, Sir Walter Scott, The, The Border-History, There, Variants
related to Contemporary names · 18
Border reivers → Borders, Busy Gap Rogues, Coldingham Priory, Hadrian's Wall, High Middle Ages, Highlanders, Housesteads, In, Later, Liddesdale, Limmers, Middle Scots, Redesdale, Teviotdale, The, The Border, Those, Tynedale
related to Elaborate nicknames · 17
Border reivers → Bessie's Andrew, Border, Brythonic, Dick's Davy, English, Gibb's Geordie's Francis, Jackson Armstrong, Jock, John, Nicknames, Pennines, Rowy's Will, Sometimes, The Border, These, Will, Will's Jock Graham
related to End of the Border · 17
Border reivers → Although, Border, Borders, By, Elizabeth, England, English, George III, Hadrian's Wall, Ill Week, James, James IV/I, James VI, Middle Shires, Scotland, Upon, When Elizabeth
related to Border warfare and the rise of Surnames · 14
Border reivers → Edward II, Edward's, England, First Scottish War, Independence, It, Redesdale, Roses, Scottish, Surnames, The Border, These, Tynedale, Wars
related to The Heyday (1513–1603) · 13
Border reivers → Border, Borders, Crowns, Debatable Land, English, However, It, James, James VI, Redesdale, Scotland, The, The Union

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border english scottish england borders scotland reivers northumberland raids also march raiding borderers known century tynedale later often law period

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Taliesininstance ofpoems attributed to bards0.80text
Aneirininstance ofpoems attributed to bards0.80text
and Llywarch Heninstance ofpoems attributed to bards0.80text
which describe battlesinstance ofpoems attributed to bards0.80text
raids in the early medieval period of what is now the Anglo-Scottish Bordersinstance ofpoems attributed to bards0.80text
bastle housesinstance ofthe archaeological record shows proliferation of more humble fortified structures0.80text
pele towers across the Anglo-Scottish borderlandinstance ofthe archaeological record shows proliferation of more humble fortified structures0.80text
the Musgravesinstance ofas well as an emergent lower gentry0.80text
Rooinstance ofas well as an emergent lower gentry0.80text
Heronsinstance ofas well as an emergent lower gentry0.80text
Scropesinstance ofas well as an emergent lower gentry0.80text
and later stillinstance ofas well as an emergent lower gentry0.80text

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