- Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle records for the year 654: "The
Middle Angles,
under earldorman Peada,
received the true faith. King Anna was
killed and
Botolph began...
- The
abbey was
believed to be
founded by
either Aethelweard (Aylward),
Earldorman of Devon, or King Cnut. This
first monastery was "small and unprosperous"...
- The
abbey was
believed to be
founded by
either Aethelweard (Aylward),
Earldorman of Devon, or King Cnut. This
first monastery was "small and unprosperous"...
- a
charter to his
thegn Æthelmund [1]. Later,
between 793 and 796 [2]
Earldorman Æthelmund
witnessed a
charter of Offa, King of Mercia. In 796 Ecgfrith...
-
Alfred gives his
older daughter, Æthelflaed, in
marriage to the
Mercian Earldorman Æthelred.
Alfred wants Lundene recaptured as soon as possible. He puts...
- Æthelric was an
Earldorman. He is
thought to have
succeeded his father, Æthelmund, as
Ealdorman of Hwicce. In 804 Æthelric
issued a
charter in
which he...
