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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 ...
Æthelwulf [a] was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.. Æthelwulf was in office in AD811, as he was present at the synod of London in that year. [b] He was still active in 816 when he attended the synod of Chelsea. [2]
The word means æthel "noble". [1] [2]It is frequently attested as the first element in Anglo-Saxon names, both masculine and feminine, e.g. Æthelhard, Æthelred, Æthelwulf; Æthelburg, Æthelflæd, Æthelthryth ().
Æthelberht (Old English: [ˈæðelberˠxt]; also spelled Ethelbert or Aethelberht) was the King of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865. He was the third son of King Æthelwulf by his first wife, Osburh.
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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
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 ...
Æthelwulf of Berkshire (before 825 – 4 January, 871) was a Saxon ealdorman.In 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester, Hampshire. [1]