Tynemouth Priory Coaster

Tynemouth Priory & Castle, Tynemouth
 
Tynemouth headland has a complex history going back 2,000 years. The castle and priory sit on the rocky headland above the mouth of the River Tyne, overlooking the North Sea and Tynemouth Pier. Dominating this section of the North East Coastline, Tynemouth headland was once one of the largest fortified areas in England.
 
The moated castle-towers, gatehouse and keep are combined with the ruins of the Benedictine priory where the three kings were buried (represented by the three crowns in Tynemouth's crest).
 
A Brief History
 
Little is known about the early history and origins of the site. Some Roman stones have been found there, but there is no definite evidence that it was occupied by the Romans. It is thought that the Priory was founded early in the 7th century, perhaps by Edwin of Northumbria.
 
In 651 King Oswine, of the ancient kingdom of Deira, was murdered by his northern rival King Oswiu of Bernicia (another ancient kingdom of Northumbria), and subsequently his body was brought to Tynemouth for burial by Oswiu who established the monastery there in penance for Oswine's murder. King Oswine became St. Oswine and his burial place became a shrine visited by pilgrims. He was the first of the three kings buried at Tynemouth.
 
St. Bede wrote about Heribald, an abbot of Tynemouth who died in 745, which is evidence that the monastery still existed in the early 8th Century. It was sufficiently established as a priory in 792 when Osred II, King of a united Northumbria, was the second king to be buried there.
 
The third kind to be buried at Tynemouth Priory was King Malcolm III of Scotland who died during a final attempt, in a long string of failed attempts, to invade Northumbria. He was defeated and slain by Robert de Mowbray, the Earl of Northumberlad, at the Battle of Alnwick in 1093 and his remains were interred at Tynemouth – though they were later reburied next to those of his wife, Margaret, at Dunfermline Abbey in the thirteenth century.
 
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