Definition of Ordgar. Meaning of Ordgar. Synonyms of Ordgar

- Ordgar (died 971) was Ealdorman of Devon in England. He was a great West Country landowner and apparently a close advisor of his son-in-law Edgar the Peaceful...
- Battle of Cynwit, ultimately defeating an army led by Viking chieftain Ubba. Ordgar (d.971), under King Edgar (ruled 959–975). He founded Tavistock Abbey in...
- serves as the hometown for the fictional peasant soldiers Tofi, Leofric, and Ordgar, whose names are actual Anglo-Saxon names from the period. Viewers may ****ume...
- daughter of Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon. Her mother was a member of the royal family of Wes****. The family's power lay in the west of Wes****. Ordgar was buried...
- mother, Ælfthryth, Edgar had married in 964. Ælfthryth was the daughter of Ordgar, ealdorman of Devon, and widow of Æthelwald, Ealdorman of East Anglia. At...
- perfidiously married his intended bride and beauteous Elfrida, daughter of Ordgar, Earl of Devonshire, afterwards wife of King Edgar, and by him mother of...
- the widow of Æthelstan Half-King's eldest son, Æthelwold. Her father was Ordgar, a leading Devonshire thegn who was appointed an ealdorman in the same year...
- Battle of Cynwit, ultimately defeating an army led by Viking chieftain Ubba. Ordgar (d. 971), under King Edgar (ruled 959-975). He founded Tavistock Abbey in...
- Ælfthryth became politically influential, and Edgar appointed her father, Ordgar, as ealdorman of Devon. Williams describes her as "a force to be reckoned...
- Street. Its name is said to derive from one Ordgarus (Odgarus, Orgarus, Ordgar, Orgar), a Dane who donated the church to the canons of St Paul’s. It is...