*’before 825′ – ‘4 january, 871’*
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(“Æthelwulf of berkshire” was a ‘saxon ealdorman’)
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‘ealdorman’?
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Ealdorman (/ˈɔːldərmən/)[1] was a term in Anglo-Saxon England which originally applied to a man of high status, including some of royal birth, whose authority was independent of the king
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It evolved in meaning and in the eighth century was sometimes applied to the former kings of territories which had submitted to great powers such as Mercia.
In Wessex in the second half of the ninth century it meant the leaders of individual shires appointed by the king.
By the tenth century ealdormen had become the local representatives of the West Saxon king of England.
Ealdormen would lead in battle, preside over courts and levy taxation.
Ealdormanries were the most prestigious royal appointments, the possession of noble families and semi-independent rulers.
The territories became large, often covering former kingdoms such as Mercia or East Anglia.
Southern ealdormen often attended court, reflecting increasing centralisation of the kingdom, but the loyalty of northern ealdormen was more uncertain.
In the eleventh century the term eorl, today’s earl, replaced that of ealdorman, but this reflected a change in terminology under Danish influence rather than a change in function
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(in 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester, Hampshire)
(later he mustered a force of 1400 men against an army of Danes, won the 31 December 870 Battle of Englefield on behalf of the then kingdom of Wessex)
(he received a land grant in 843/44 from Brihtwulf, king of Mercia; and lost his life at the “Battle of Reading”)
(Æthelweard – in his account of the battle – reveals a curious fact about Æthelwulf, master of the art of the ‘ambush’)
(he was a ‘mercian’)
(as in “offa”)
(and NOT a ‘west saxon’)
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“In fact, the body of the dux (leader) mentioned above was carried away secretly and taken into Mercia to the place called Northworthig, but Derby in the Danish tongue”
Æthelweard
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