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It was the booking of a tenth of folkland to its owners, who would then be free to convey it to a church. [77] It was a reduction of one tenth in the secular burdens on lands already in the possession of landowners. [77] The secular burdens would have included the provision of supplies for the king and his officials and payment of various taxes ...
Coin of Æthelred A mention of Æthelred in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Æthelred (/ ˈ æ θ əl r ɛ d /; c. 762 – 18 April 796), was the king of Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 790 until he was murdered in 796.
A map of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, including places relevant to Æthelwold's reign. The history of East Anglia and its kings is known from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, compiled by the Northumbrian monk Bede in 731, and a genealogical list from the Anglian collection, dating from the 790s, in which the ancestry of Ælfwald of East Anglia was traced back through fourteen ...
Very little is known of Æthelwold's immediate family. His father, Æthelred, was born in about 848 [b] and died in 871, so his sons must have been young children when he died.
Ætheling was also used in a poetic sense to mean "a good and noble man". Old English verse often used ætheling to describe Christ, as well as various prophets and saints.. The hero of the 8th century Beowulf is introduced as an ætheling, possibly in the sense of a relative of the King of the Geats, though some translators render ætheling as "retaine
Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...
Ethel Janowski, a character in the film Criminally Insane; Ethel Mertz, a character in the television program I Love Lucy; Ethel Mertz, a character from The Howard Stern Show; Ethel Skinner, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders; Ethel Sprocket, a character in the Canadian animated sitcom Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
The final night of the Democratic National Convention included a tutorial on pronouncing Kamala Harris' name — featuring none other than the candidate's great nieces. The actress Kerry ...