A port situated where the River Hull…

A port situated where the River Hull joins the Humber River estuary, about twenty-two miles (thirty-five kilometers) from the North Sea, had been founded in the late twelfth by the monks of Meaux Abbey, who needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported.

Called Wyke on Hull, the town is renamed Kings-town upon Hull (modern Hull, or Kingston upon Hull) in 1299 by King Edward I, who grants city status by Royal Charter.