- wood, forest,
glade or clearing) In 1066, the
settlement was
owned by
Wulfgeat of
Madeley and was
worth one pound.
Twenty years later,
under the ownership...
-
called "Uuiget". The name is
probably a
rendering of the Old
English "
Wulfgeat",
which was also
rendered as "Uviet" in the
Domesday Book. The name seems...
-
warships to be built, on a
national scale, but this was
weakened when
Wulfgeat, who was
accused by Eadric's
brother Brihtric of treason,
turned to piracy...
- King of Mercia;
possibly refounded 994 by Lady Wulfran, land
granted to
Wulfgeat,
kinsman of Lady Wulfran, by King Edgar,
confirmed by Sigeric, Archbishop...
-
among the
ministers witnessing charters,
followed by Ordulf,
Wulfheah and
Wulfgeat. Upon the
death of his
father Æthelweard in 998, no
ealdorman was appointed...
-
attested with Brihtwold,
another royal kinsman.
Together with Æthelmar and
Wulfgeat the king's "beloved thane" he
encouraged the king to
restore the lands...
- monachorum,
adapted to
their rudimentary ideas of
monastic life; a
letter to
Wulfgeat of Ylmandun; an
introduction to the
study of the Old and New Testaments...
-
recorded in the
Domesday Survey as
having two
Saxons theins (Ulviet or
Wulfgeat, and Dob). The
boundary between Mere and High Legh is
still known as Dobb...
-
Bishop Ælfheah
succeeded him to the
archiepiscopal see. In the same year
Wulfgeat was
deprived of all his property, and
Wulfheah and U****eat were blinded...
- " Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCXLIX, pp. 563–579 (1881) "The
Story of
Wulfgeat," Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLI, pp. 551–561 (1882) "An
English Shire...
