 | John Charles Bristow - Cumbria (England) - 1835 - 302 pages
...ages. It is mentioned by Bede, as having a monastery there in his time ; as also by Malmesbury for being the place where Constantine, King of the Scots,...Cumberland, put themselves and their kingdoms under the protection of the English King Athelstan. The true name of the family was D'Acre, from one of them... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture, Domestic - 1853 - 568 pages
...Barons de Dacre, and mentioned by Bede for having a monastery in his time, as also by Malmsbury for being the place where Constantine, king of the Scots,...Eugenius, king of Cumberland, put themselves and their kingdom under the protection of King Athelstan." And in Gibbon's note, " Here is a castle standing,... | |
 | Michael Waistell Taylor - Architecture, Domestic - 1892 - 552 pages
...Here in Dacre Castle it has been of wood. DATE OF THE CASTLE. The venerable Bede wrote in the eighth century, in the year 731, and he mentions that a monastery...routed and overthrown. Furthermore, Camden, in his Britannia, repeats the story from Malmsbury : and Gibbon adds as a note, " Here is a " castle standing,... | |
 | England - 1892 - 344 pages
...many ages. It is mentioned by Bede as having a monastery there in his time ; as also by Malmsbury for being the place where Constantine, King of the Scots,...Eugenius, King of Cumberland, put themselves and their kingdom under the protection of the English king, Athelstan. The true name of the family was D'Acre,... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - Authors, English - 1894 - 272 pages
..." as old Bede spells it, and Dacre Castle is obtainable, where, according to William of Malmesbury, Constantine, King of the Scots, and Eugenius, King of Cumberland, put themselves under the protection of Athelstan, King of England, AD 927. As we think upon English kings, our mind... | |
 | Sir James Dixon Mackenzie (7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat) - Castles - 1897 - 540 pages
...village of Dacre close beside it. William of Malmesbury, writing AD 1131, mentions a castle at Dacre as being the place where Constantine, King of the...Cumberland, put themselves and their kingdoms under Athelstane, the King of England, about the year 927. , But whatever may have been the rude fortress... | |
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Dacre castle was noted as being the place where Constantine, king of the Scots, and Eugenius, king of Cumberland, put themselves and their kingdoms under the English king, Athelstane. 