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Definition of Ealdorman
1. [n EALDORMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ealdorman
Literary usage of Ealdorman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings by Johann Martin Lappenberg (1845)
"The eldest was synonymous with the chief2, and ealdorman (senior, ... The ealdorman
was solemnly girded with a sword; his duty in time of war was to defend ..."
2. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"The command of this naval armament was entrusted to ealdorman ... when a great/jW
had been collected out of Wiltshire and Hampshire, ealdorman ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"The evidence justifies the conclusion that each expedition was led by a chosen
chieftain, who might bear as a civil ruler the title of ealdorman, ..."
4. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"The command of this naval armament was entrusted to ealdorman ... when a great
fyrd had been collected out of Wiltshire and Hampshire, ealdorman ..."
5. A Short Constitutional History of England by Henry St. Clair Feilden (1895)
"The ealdorman sometimes ruled over two or more shires; he attended the Witenagemot,
and it was his duty to lead the host of the shire in war, ..."
6. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"For the moment it must be enough to trace the history of the ealdorman. ...
In the first place, as a national officer an ealdorman was nominated, ..."
7. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"-89), but this assertion rests on a confusion between him and another ealdorman
of the same name, who attests charters at the same time and for some years ..."
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