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Æthelwold and his brother Æthelhelm were still infants when their father the king died while fighting a Danish Viking invasion. The throne passed to the king's younger brother (Æthelwold's uncle) Alfred the Great, who carried on the war against the Vikings and won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington in 878.
Æthelwold was born to noble parents in Winchester. [6] From the late 920s he served in a secular capacity at the court of King Athelstan, and according to Æthelwold's biographer, Wulfstan, "he spent a long time in the royal burh there as the king's inseparable companion, learning much from the king's witan that was useful and profitable to him". [8]
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 ...
Æthelwald or Æthelwold (died 963) was ealdorman of East Anglia. He is mentioned in Byrhtferth 's life of Oswald of Worcester along with other members of his family. He was probably the oldest son of Æthelstan Half-King and succeeded to some of his father's offices in 956 when Æthelstan became a monk at Glastonbury Abbey .
Æthelwold's school at Winchester aimed to establish a standard West Saxon literary language, a programme probably initiated by Æthelwold himself. [113] His most illustrious pupil, Ælfric ( c. 950 – c. 1010 ), who became Abbot of Eynsham , aimed to write in accordance with a consistent grammatical system and vocabulary.
I do not know of any evidence that they had a flag at that date so I have deleted it. Dudley Miles 20:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC) Argh. Two out my three images do not have proper licensing. I do not know the source for the map, so I have replaced it with one copied from a 1910 book. It is not as good, but I assume there is no copyright problem.
Æthelwold installed Augustinian canons into his newly founded cathedral, which was the only cathedral in England with a cathedral chapter composed of that order of canons. [3] The monastic rule in use in the cathedral was the Rule of Arrouaise , a French Augustinian house noted for its austerity.
The Enlightenment in America (1978) Oxford University Press, US, ISBN 0-19-502367-6; the standard survey; May, Henry F. The Divided Heart: Essays on Protestantism and the Enlightenment in America (Oxford UP 1991) online; McDonald, Forrest Novus Ordo Seclorum: Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (1986) University Press of Kansas, ISBN 0 ...