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Earl of Northumbria (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The

Ealdred II of Bamburgh (492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ealdred was an Earl in north-east England from the death of his uncle, Eadwulf Cudel, soon after 1018 until his murder in 1038. He is variously described

Uhtred of Bamburgh (1,461 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Uchtred; died c. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I, ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg)

Ælfsige II (bishop of Winchester) (113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

consecrated between 1012 and 1013. He died in 1032. In his will, he named Ealdorman Ælfheah as the guardian of his relatives and his last testament, as well

Westerne (236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Saxons and the South Saxons. It is likely that the area was ruled by an ealdorman, a senior noble representing the interest of the kings of Mercia. The

Selwood Forest (548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Æthelbald and his co-conspirators, the bishop of Sherborne and the ealdorman of Somerset, "in the western part of Selwood". Their motives are not known

Ealdgyth (wife of Edmund Ironside) (625 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Burghs" were killed at an assembly of the English nobility at Oxford. Ealdorman Eadric Streona is said to have killed them "dishonourably" after having

Oswulf II of Bamburgh (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(killed 1041), and grandson of Uhtred the Bold, ruler of Bamburgh and ealdorman of Northumbria (killed 1016). Oswulf’s family ruled Bamburgh from 954

Bryni of Sussex (78 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bryni, Ealdorman of Sussex, issued an undated charter (but before about 705) as Bruny dux Suthsax’, that was witnessed by Kings Noðhelm and Watt. Brinfast

Sideman (bishop) (295 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Sideman". The historian Cyril Hart describes him as a protégé of Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia. Sideman died on 30 April 977 at a meeting of a royal council

Eadberht of Selsey (490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

As abbot Eadberht received, around 700, a grant of land from Bryni, Ealdorman of Sussex, that was witnessed by Kings Nothelm of Sussex and Watt of Sussex

St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester (785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, in the late 880s or the 890s. It appears to have been an exact

Oswald of Sussex (117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Oswald was an Ealdorman of Sussex, jointly with three former kings: Osmund, Ælfwald, and Oslac. He witnessed a charter of Offa, King of Mercia, dated

Eadwulf I of Northumbria (310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the main line. Initially Eadwulf I appears to have had the support of ealdorman Berhtfrith son of Berhtred, presumed to be the lord of the north-east

Eahlstan (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Rome in 855, his son Æthelbald, together with Ealhstan and Eanwulf, ealdorman of Somerset, conspired to keep the king from recovering his crown. According

Osmund of Sussex (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mercia, dated 772 as Osmund dux. Evidently he was demoted from king to ealdorman following Offa's conquest of Sussex. "www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+48"

Oswulf of Ramsbury (137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Oswulf was consecrated between 949 and 951. He died in 970. In the 940s Ealdorman Ealhhelm was given the lands of the then defunct Evesham Abbey, and on

The Empty Throne (1,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Witan. However, upon the discovery that Aethelhelm, the most powerful ealdorman in Wessex, is at the meeting, he realises this is a ploy to draw him away

Godwine Porthund (148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a butcher ("carnifex") of Shrewsbury in 1006. Ælfhelm, Ealdorman of York had been invited to a feast with Eadric Streona, who took him

List of English royal consorts (507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Devon Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon – 964/965 11 May 973 8 July 975 17 November 999–1001 – Edgar the Peaceful Ælfgifu of York Thored, Ealdorman of York – –

The Flame Bearer (765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

leave his land, which they do. Fictional Uhtred - narrator, dispossessed Ealdorman of Bebbanburg Uhtred - Uhtred's son Uhtred - Uhtred's cousin occupying

The Pale Horseman (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

killing of Ubba himself in single combat, only to find that his enemy Ealdorman Odda the Younger has lied, denying he had any part in the great victory

Eadwine of Sussex (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eadwine was an Ealdorman of Sussex. His death was recorded in 982 and he was buried Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon

Liston, Essex (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Æthelflæd of Damerham who died between 962 and 991. Her father was Ealdorman Ælfgar who was trying to establish a monastic community at Stoke by Nayland

Sword Song (991 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

father and Æthelred. Uhtred Ragnarson - the Protagonist, dispossessed Ealdorman of Bebbanburg, narrator Gisela - Uhtred's wife Stiorra - Uhtred's baby

Æthelberht, King of Wessex (3,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

whether or not he returned to England. Æthelberht attested charters as dux (ealdorman) in 854 and king in 855. In 856, Æthelwulf returned to England with a

Cuthberht of Mercia (117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a Mercian of the 8th century who may have been the same person as an ealdorman of that name who witnessed charters during the reign of Offa. Cuthberht

Ffernfael ap Meurig (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and kings of Gwent), driven by the might and tyrannical behaviour of Ealdorman Æthelred and the Mercians, petitioned King Alfred of their own accord

Ælfgifu of Northampton (1,891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family based in the Midlands (Mercia). She was a daughter of Ælfhelm, ealdorman of southern Northumbria, and his wife Wulfrun. Ælfhelm was killed in 1006

Eadwine of Abingdon (54 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Eadwine was Abbot of Abingdon. Eadwine was the brother of Ealdorman Ælfric of Hampshire[citation needed], who purchased the abbacy for him in 985; he

List of people known as the Stout (48 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

epithet the Stout include: Æthelmær the Stout (died 1015), Anglo-Saxon ealdorman of the western provinces (present day south-western England) Olaf II of

Ancestry of the Godwins (2,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to an "Ælmære". Calling him Ælmær, Anscombe identifies this legatee as Ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, in his view the father of Wulfnoth Cild. He supports

The Burning Land (2,007 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

custody of Aethelflaed, Alfred's daughter and wife of Aethelred, the ealdorman of Mercia. Furious, Uhtred reneges on his oath to Alfred and sails, with

Tavistock Abbey (1,537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1458. Older historians thought the abbey was founded in 961 by Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon, but the modern consensus is that it was wholly the foundation

Ecgfrith of Mercia (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England", p. 24. Letter of Alcuin to Mercian ealdorman Osbert, tr. in Whitelock, English Historical Documents, p. 787 Ecgfrith

Wiglaf of Mercia (3,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

privileges granted came at a cost: Wiglaf and one ealdorman received life interests in estates, and another ealdorman was paid six hundred shillings in gold. It

1038 (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Persian historian (b. 961) Budic of Nantes, French nobleman Ealdred, ealdorman of Bamburgh Ermengol II (the Pilgrim), count of Urgell Farrukhi Sistani

Nacton (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anglia. The name means Hnaki or Nokkvi's homestead. In 1010 Ulfcytel, Ealdorman of East Anglia, fought the Danes in the area now called Seven Hills (there

1006 (353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bavaria December 26 – Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935) Ælfhelm of York, ealdorman (dux) of Northumbria Azon the Venerable (or Atso), French prelate Fiachra

982 (517 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Hasan ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Tughj, Ikhshidid prince and regent Eadwine, ealdorman of Sussex (approximate date) Gao Huaide, Chinese general (b. 926) Indra

Eadgifu of Kent (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edward the Elder, King of Wessex. Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent, who died at the Battle of the Holme in 902. She married Edward

Eadgifu of Kent (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edward the Elder, King of Wessex. Eadgifu was the daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent, who died at the Battle of the Holme in 902. She married Edward

Burh (1,471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

daughter, Æthelflæd, the 'Lady of the Mercians', and her husband Æthelred, Ealdorman of Mercia. The Mercian Register tells of the building of ten burhs by

1017 (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nobleman October 6 – Wang Dan, Chinese Grand Chancellor Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia Eadwig Ætheling, son of Æthelred II Elvira of Castile, queen

961 (725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jiangsu Province (Eastern China). Tavistock Abbey is founded by Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon, in England. January 15 – Seongjong, ruler of Goryeo (Korea)

Warriors of the Storm (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defeated and killed. Uhtred of Bebbanburg - the protagonist, dispossessed Ealdorman of Bebbanburg, narrator Finan the Agile - Irish slave and warrior Uhtred

1004 (632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1035). A Danish Viking fleet under Sweyn Forkbeard lands in Norfolk. Ealdorman Ulfcytel orders his Anglo-Saxon troops to burn the raiding ships. The

Lothian (1,661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distinct territory, sometimes described as having a king, at other times an ealdorman (earl). Bernicia became distinct from other English territories at this

Wulf (777 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have had been named Winfreth originally, and to have been the son of an ealdorman named Tingfrith. Because he miraculously recovered from a state of lameness

1010s in England (651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

968) 30 November – King Edmund Ironside 1017 December – Eadric Streona, ealdorman Palmer, Alan Warwick; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British

Cerdic of Wessex (1,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

then be what in later Anglo-Saxon terminology could be described as an ealdorman ... If such a dominant native family as that of Cerdic had already developed

870 (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thames River. December 31 – Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading; many

Seneschal (1,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Princeps Merciorum Gentis:the Family, Career and Connections of Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia". Anglo-Saxon England. 10: 148 n. 29. doi:10.1017/S0263675100003240

Wolstan (148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the spelling Wolstan typically refers to St. Wulfstan II. Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire (or Weohstan), died 802 Wulfstan of Hedeby, 9th century merchantman

English and British royal mistresses (6,837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

doubtful legitimacy. The chroniclers described Ordmær as an ealdorman, but no ealdorman or thegn with that name attested any surviving 10th-century charter

Timeline of Somerset history (266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Somersæte" 878 – Battle of Cynwit – Saxon victory over the Danes by Ealdorman Odda 878 – Battle of Ethandun – West Saxon victory over the Danes (uncertain

Welland, Worcestershire (604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Welland was acquired by the Bishop of Worcester after a grant of land from Ealdorman Athulf, who had inherited the estate from the Mercian king Coenwulf. By

Æthelfrith (disambiguation) (71 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Elmham (died c. 745), Bishop of Elmham Æthelfrith of Mercia (fl. 883–915), Ealdorman in Mercia This page or section lists people that share the same given

The Lords of the North (1,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

combat and defeats him. Uhtred - the protagonist, narrator, dispossessed Ealdorman of Bebbanburg King Alfred of Wessex - The King of Wessex Guthrum/King

Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (2,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ceremony, received at the nunnery of Shaftesbury, under the supervision of ealdorman Ælfhere. According to William of Malmesbury, Ælfgifu would secretly redeem

995 (689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

King Cuilén) as ruler of Alba (Scotland). Uhtred (the Bold), a son of Ealdorman Waltheof I of Northumbria, establishes an episcopal see at Durham and

Anglo-Saxons (26,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

day of Egbert's succession to the kingdom of Wessex, in 802, a Mercian ealdorman from the province of the Hwicce had crossed the border at Kempsford, with

List of Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla characters (7,625 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Emma of Normandy. Played by David Oakes Godwin, the son of a disgraced ealdorman, became one of King Æthelred the Unready of England's most trusted advisors

List of people known as the Bold (120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Philip the Bold (1342-1404), Duke of Burgundy Uhtred the Bold (died 1016), ealdorman of Northumbria Vladimir the Bold (1353-1410), a prince of Serpukhov (in

East Ham (2,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edgar granted the Manor of Ham, which was undivided at that time, to Ealdorman Athelstan. A subsequent charter on 1037 describes a transfer of land,

List of family trees (2,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family House of Tudor Patrimonial/Welsh Lineage House of Bebbanburgh ealdorman and high-reeve of Bebbanburgh (now Bamburgh) Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk

Vikings season 2 (1,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Prince Aethelwulf of Wessex, son of King Ecbert Duncan Lacroix as Ealdorman Werferth, serving King Ecbert Philip O'Sullivan as Bishop Edmund Georgia

Somersham (1,183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Abbots (later Bishops) of Ely who obtained it from the Anglo Saxon Ealdorman Byrhtnoth following his death at the Battle of Maldon in Essex in 991

Tettenhall (1,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Viking invaders by the united forces of Edward the Elder of Wessex and Ealdorman Æthelred of Mercia. It saw the crushing defeat of the last of the large

Timeline of Northumbria and Northumberland (1,070 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

995 - Monks from Lindisfarne establish Durham 1013 - Uhtred the Bold, ealdorman of all Northumbria submitted to Sweyn Forkbeard as did all of the Danes

Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain (4,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Centwine chased the Britons into the sea. 710: (... and in the same year ealdorman Beorhtfrith fought against Picts between [the rivers] Avon and Carron

Wulfrun (1,061 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of his land to re-found Burton Abbey. Another son, Ælfhelm, was made ealdorman of Northumbria, in practice southern Northumbria (the area around York)

St Ebbe's Church, Oxford (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

recorded in about 1005 when the church was granted to Eynsham Abbey by Ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, when it was already recorded as the "ancient St Ebbe's"

West Ham (2,810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Edgar granted the Manor of Ham, which was undivided at that time, to Ealdorman Athelstan. A subsequent charter of 1037 describes a transfer of land which

Æthelwold's Revolt (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

authority, especially in Kent, and this may explain his later marriage to Ealdorman Sigehelm's daughter, Eadgifu. Miller, Sean (2004). "Edward (called Edward

Sanderstead (1,822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reference to Sanderstead can be found in the will, dated 871, of Alfred, an ealdorman. The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington

The Pagan Lord (1,731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of death. But he lives. Uhtred Uhtredson - the narrator, dispossessed Ealdorman of Bebbanburg, now in his 50s. Finan (the Agile) – Irish ex-slave and

Welshampton (1,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Meadow' was tentatively identified as the site of the house of a Saxon ealdorman or King's Thane by the Rev. Thomas Auden towards the end of the nineteenth

Ipswich Road, Colchester (1,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1930 found evidence of road ditches on this alignment. In 991 Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of the East-Saxons, decided to check the Danes. They had plundered Ipswich

Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria (1,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Northumbria, as maternal grandson, through his mother Ealdgyth, of Northumbrian ealdorman Uchtred the Bold and his third wife, Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred

Chartham (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

storage area. In 844 King Æthelwulf of Wessex granted land at Horton to Ealdorman Eadred. A translation of the text of Charter S 319 reads: "Bounds of Horton

Duke of the Franks (1,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2307/2851704. JSTOR 2851704. S2CID 162248053. Loyn, H. R. (1953). "The Term Ealdorman in the Translations Prepared at the Time of King Alfred". The English

Clan Strachan (3,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

descent, and with a moderate to high probability descendants from Waltheof, Ealdorman of Bamburgh (fl. 900). Waltheof de Strachan succeeded Ranulf, and in c

Oswald of Northumbria (3,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

St Oswald's Priory in his honour. Æthelflæd, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, were buried in the priory, and their nephew, King Æthelstan

1000s (decade) (6,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1035). A Danish Viking fleet under Sweyn Forkbeard lands in Norfolk. Ealdorman Ulfcytel orders his Anglo-Saxon troops to burn the raiding ships. The

List of royal consorts of Wessex (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Father, Æthelhelm – circa 901 late 910s after 910 Edward the Elder Eadgifu Father, Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent before 904 circa 919 17 July 924 after 965

List of monastic houses in Surrey (661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(in the time of Abbot Cuthbert) granted to Peterborough by Brordar, and ealdorman, with the consent of Offa; thought to have been destroyed in raids by

Viking raid warfare and tactics (4,856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

couple later on (a note was written inside the book after its recovery "I ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army

Battle of the Conwy (1,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to his biographer, Asser, "driven by the military power and tyranny of Ealdorman Æthelred and the Mercians". Æthelred followed in accepting West Saxon

Pucklechurch (3,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Liofa stabbed him at Pucklechurch. And Æthelflæd of Damerham, daughter of Ealdorman Ælfgar, was then his queen." Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS D, tr. Michael

Anglo-Saxon law (5,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

most of its work concerned land disputes. The sheriff or sometimes the ealdorman (later earl) and the bishop presided, but there was no judge in the modern

Malcolm III of Scotland (4,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it is unlikely to have particularly bothered either King Edward or the ealdorman of Northumbria in York, Tostig Godwinson, who at that time on pilgrimage

Kingdom of Sussex (10,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

part of the county was in the hands of his family. The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey

London Borough of Newham (4,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, in which King Edgar granted the area to Ealdorman Athelstan. The territory was undivided at that time. A subsequent charter

Alresford, Essex (5,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to his daughter, Ælfflæd, and her husband Byrhtnoth. Byrhnoth became Ealdorman of Essex in 956. The Vikings raided periodically from 980 until Olaf Tryggvason

Judith of Flanders (3,151 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

son, Æthelbald, supported by Eahlstan, Bishop of Sherborne and Eanwulf, Ealdorman of Somerset, were conspiring to dethrone him. The marriage with Judith

List of monastic houses in Wiltshire (1,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

8066059 (Upavon Priory) Wilton Abbey church of St Mary founded by Weohstan, Ealdorman of Wiltshire; nuns founded c.830 (or 773), according to tradition, by

List of monastic houses in Gloucestershire (1,534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

890s/refounded 909 by Æthelflæd/Æthelflæda and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia; founded before 1153 as a priory by Henry Murdac, Archbishop

Beowulf (10,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a division of the Great Heathen Army of the Danes, and of Aethelred, ealdorman of Mercia. In this thesis, the trend of appropriating Gothic royal ancestry

Wulfstan (died 1023) (5,179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"nobleman of high rank, (Danish) jarl" (cf. Old Norse jarl; cp. Old English ealdorman), fysan "to make someone ready, to put someone to flight" (cf. Old Norse

1030s (4,735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Persian historian (b. 961) Budic of Nantes, French nobleman Ealdred, ealdorman of Bamburgh Ermengol II (the Pilgrim), count of Urgell Farrukhi Sistani

Manaw Gododdin (2,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gives the year as 710, saying that "Beorhtfrith the ealdorman fought against the Picts between Haefe and Caere". This is assumed to

Siward Barn (3,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brother Ealdred were the sons of Æthelgar by a daughter of Eadric Streona, Ealdorman of Mercia and Eadgyth, another daughter of King Æthelred, explaining the

Bromyard (5,817 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enclosure' with the permission of King Behrtwulf, King of the Mercians. Ealdorman Aelfstan, the local magnate, was granted between 500 and 600 acres of

Cultural depictions of Alfred the Great (2,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strategy games by Paradox Interactive. In both titles, he begins as an ealdorman under his brother Æthelred and has not yet become King of Wessex. A number

Baynard's Castle (3,372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of chess; Historian William Page suggests that Eadric held the fort as Ealdorman of Mercia and after his death it may have been granted to Osgod Clapa

Bernard Cornwell bibliography (846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

obeys the summons even though he knows one of his bitterest enemies, Ealdorman Aethelhelm, will try to have him killed. 12 Sword of Kings Harper Collins

Annery, Monkleigh (3,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wife of the Saxon magnate Ordwulf, son of the Abbey's founder Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon (d.971). She also donated the following manors, all near Annery

Treaty of Rouen (991) (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

people were exiled during the reign of Æthelred II; one example being the ealdorman of Mercia, Ælfric Cild, who was exiled in 985. The fact that Æthelred

English orthography (7,007 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

uo flora, bald, talk, author, cause, caught, overslaughed, jaw, awe, ealdorman, broad, bohrium, flooring, crossjack, pouring, bought, surest (RP), fluoridate (RP)

Burghfield (7,030 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

daughter, Æthelflaed, "Lady of the Mercians" and her husband Æthelred, Ealdorman of Mercia. A place, probably in Berkshire, appearing as Yerburghfeld,

History of the Royal Navy (before 1707) (10,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Aclea, but a naval action was also won by Æthelwulf's son Æthelstan and Ealdorman Ealhere at Sandwich, Kent, capturing nine ships. The Danish "Great Army"

Worcester city walls (4,120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wider kingdom of Mercia. Worcester and its defences were reorganised by Ealdorman Æthelred and Æthelflæd and bishop Werferth in the 890s. This involved

List of monastic houses in England (2,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

890s/refounded 909 by Æthelflæd/Æthelflæda and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia; founded before 1153 as a priory by Henry Murdac, Archbishop

List of English words of Old English origin (6,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suffix) -er (comparative suffix) e'en e'er e.t.a. ea each each other ealdorman ear ear (of corn) earache eardrum earful earlobe earmark earring earshot

List of women warriors in folklore (11,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she succeeded to Mercian power upon the death of her husband Aethelred, Ealdorman of Mercia (883–911), in 911. She was a skilled military leader and tactician

History of the English penny (c. 600 – 1066) (10,655 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which had become an important centre of 'English' Mercia under Alfred's ealdorman Æthelred; a small number of 'four-line' non-portrait pennies with reverse

Indo-European vocabulary (8,973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

right” *h₂el- "to grow, nourish" old (< OE eald, ald); alderman (< OE ealdorman) aljan "to cause to grow fat, fatten" *oleō (*olēre) "I grow"; alō (alere)

History of Edinburgh (8,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780748601004. þam ylcan geare feaht Beorhtfrið ealdorman wið Pehtas betwux Hæfe & Cære Fry, Michael (2009). Edinburgh: A History

Soulton Hall (6,764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

most likely the same Brihtric who was the brother of Eadric Streona the Ealdorman of Mercia from 1007 to 1017. Both Brihtric and Eadric were slain by King

List of battles 301–1300 (83 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cynwit West Saxons, said to have been under the command of a certain ealdorman named Odda, defeat a Viking army, killing their leader, an unnamed man