- Wes****, the king
appointed ealdormen to lead
individual shires.
Under Alfred the
Great (r. 871–899),
there were nine or ten
ealdormen. Each West
Saxon shire...
-
Surrey (/ˈsʌri/) is a
ceremonial county in
South East England. It is
bordered by
Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sus****...
- were
royal appointments, but the
latter in
effect became hereditary.
Ealdormen of the
Mercians (non-dynastic) Earls of the
Mercians (descendants of...
-
Ealdormen before 1066
Ruler Accession End
Notes Oslac 963×966 975 T****d 975×979 992x994 Ælfhelm c.994 1006
Uhtred of
Bamburgh 1006 1016 Eiríkr Hákonarson...
-
aristocrat who
ranked at the
third level in lay society,
below the king and
ealdormen. He had to be a
substantial landowner.
Thanage refers to the
tenure by...
-
third lay (non-religious) rank in
English society after the king and
ealdormen. Dish-bearers and
butlers probably also
carried out
diverse military and...
- date the
reigns of each king. The
monarchs were
either known as
kings or
ealdormen.
According to the charters, most
kings did not
govern alone: Nothhelm...
- Earl of
Devon is a
title that has been
created several times in the
Peerage of England. It was
possessed first (after the
Norman Conquest of 1066) by the...
- Half-King's own
brothers and sons, five of whom at one time or
another were
ealdormen.
Since Half-King was an
intimate of the
reform circle, and St Dunstan...
-
century until the 11th century. It
comprised important noblemen,
including ealdormen, thegns, and bishops.
Meetings of the
witan were
sometimes called the...
