Ælfric Cild (fl. 975–985) was a wealthy Anglo-Saxon nobleman from the east Midlands, Ealdorman of Mercia between 983 and 985, and possibly brother-in-law...
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Look up Ælfric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ælfric (Old English Ælfrīc, Middle English Elfric) is an Anglo-Saxon given name, consisting of the...
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high rank. As a cognomen, it may refer to: Ælfric Cild (fl. AD 975-985), ealdorman of Mercia Eadric Cild, also known as Eadric the Wild, (fl. 1068-70)...
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Mercia in 957 by Eadgar, when the English kingdom was disunited. 983 Ælfric Cild 983–985 Brother-in-law of Ælfhere. Deposed by Æthelred the Unready in...
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formed earldoms of Chester and later Shrewsbury. Ælfhere (950s–983) Ælfric Cild (983–985) Eadric Streona (1007–1017) Leofric (c. 1030–1057) Ælfgar (1057–c...
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Brihtric, Ælfric, Goda, Æthelwine, Æthelweard, and Æthelmær, of whom the last is said (probably mistakenly) to have been the father of Wulfnoth Cild, who was...
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magnate Ælfric Cild, who is described in a charter of 956 as Eadwig's adoptivus parens. This term is generally taken by historians to refer to Ælfric's status...
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Ælfhere, who probably supported Æthelred, together with his brother-in-law Ælfric Cild, while Ælfhere's enemy Æthelwine (son of Æthelstan Half-King) probably...
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year 983 records Ælfhere's death. He was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. Ælfric Cild, his sister's husband—she may have been called Æthelflæd—succeeded to...
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Eadric the Wild (redirect from Eadric Cild)
Eadric the Wild (or Eadric Silvaticus), also known as Wild Edric, Eadric Cild (or Child) and Edric the Forester, was an Anglo-Saxon magnate of Shropshire...
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sons were Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia, Ælfheah, Ælfwine and Eadric. Ælfric Cild may have been his son-in-law. Williams 2004. Jayakumar 2008, p. 85. Jayakumar...
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Eynsham Abbey in Oxfordshire, where he made Ælfric its first abbot, along with Priory of Bruton in Somerset. Ælfric dedicated his Lives of the Saints to Æthelmær...
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Ælfwine killed at the Battle of Maldon in 991, and was possibly a son of Ælfric Cild, ealdorman of Mercia between 983 and 985. Accurately tracing Northman...
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(1951): 46–62. Ælfric, preface to Lives of Saints, ed. and tr. W.W. Skeat, Ælfric's Lives of Saints. 2 vols: vol. 1. Oxford, 1881–1900. 2–7. Ælfric, preface...
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the reign of Æthelred II; one example being the ealdorman of Mercia, Ælfric Cild, who was exiled in 985. The fact that Æthelred came to be king due to...
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tended to accord with the endings of the words). For instance, Old-English cild (the ancestor of "child", pronounced "chilled") is neuter, as are both wæpnedcild...
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book begins Bald habet hunc librum Cild quem conscribere iussit, meaning "Bald owns this book which he ordered Cild to compile." The text survives in only...
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(approximate date) Theophylact Botaneiates, Byzantine general and governor Wulfnoth Cild, English nobleman (approximate date) 1015 February 5 – Adelaide, German abbess...
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de Bully; Stapolwine; Thorbiorn; Ulfkil; Walan; William Peverel; Wulfsige Cild The parish church of All Saints has a square tower at the western end, north...
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