Origins of the name Leeds

The Celtic British tribe called the Brigantes were also known as Leods or Ludees. A possible starting point for:
Loidis Ledes Leedes then Leeds. Natives of Leeds are known as Loiners

Viking, Roman and Saxon Eras

What the Romans Did for Us The Anglo-Saxons From the Vikings to the Normans (Short Oxford History of the British Isles) Roman Britain and Early England 55 B.C. - A.D. 871 (The Norton Library History of England)

Viking Age England Roman Britain (Lancaster Pamphlets)

55BC 51AD	At he time of the Roman invasion of Britain, the area around current day Leeds was occupied by a Celtic British tribe called the Brigantes. They had a stong point at Caer Loid Coit (Leeds) guarding the Aire passage. The area between the Aire and the Wharfe was known as Elmet. Other strong points consisting of trenches and earth works were at Barwick in Elmet and Aberford. Cock Beck forming a defensive line, Allthes defences were facing South. Most of the area was swamp and fenland. The defences were at points giving North / South routes. This suggests they were built to resist the Romans. The Angles and Danes came from the East tending to use boats along the rivers, or across the Wolds of East Yorkshire. The Romans built a road between Chester, Ilkley to Adel in Leeds, where a Roman Camp was established, and on to Thorner Elmet wa an area of desolate moorland. Swillington, Garforth, Whinmoor, Bramham Aldwoodley, Eccup and Adel were all moors, swampland and morasses
7^th Century	King Edwin 616 633, a Bernicia and Deika (Northumbria and Yorkshire area) King, established a residence in what is now Leeds. Building up to a small Saxon village
731	The area of Loidis was a county seat. Later Ledes became the first corruption of this, later still became Leedes then Leeds. Natives of Leeds are known as Loiners
937	The battle of Brunanburgh. Though to have been near Wharfedale
Edward the Confessor 1042 66 Born in Islip, Oxfordshire, England 1002. His mother was a Norman, and he lived in Normandy (1016 41) and aquired Norman "affinity" which produced great displeasure among the Saxon nobles. Edward's greatest achievement was the construction of a new cathedral, 'Westminster' where virtually all English monarchs from William the Conqueror onward would be crowned. It was not built in London but to the west of the city hence the name. On his deathbed, the Confessor named Harold as his successor, overlooking the rightful heir, Edgar the Ætheling, and ignoring a promise that he allegedly made (according to French sources) to William of Normandy, this ultimately led to the Norman conquest later that year. Harold II, Godwinsson 1066 Harold II defeated the forces of his traitorous brother and the King of Norway at the battle of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on the 25th of September 1066. On the 28th William of Normandy and his Normans landed on the south coast. Harold marched south to battle with the Normans and was defeated by William at the battle of Hastings 1066 Harold II was the last monarch of England to suffer defeat at the hands of a foreign invader.
House of Normandy William I (the Conqueror) 1066 87