Ealdorman

In this court presided (for in strict signification he does not seem to have been a judge) an officer of great consideration in those times, called the Ealdorman of the

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

"Ealdorman," said Edwy, impatiently, "why throw up entrenchments? can we not carry theirs by storm? we are all ready, are we not, for a valiant charge?"

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

"Ealdorman," I said, "while there is yet time let us form up in a wedge and go through that line.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

IN THIS year Cynewulf and the councillors of the West Saxons deprived Sigeberht of his kingdom because of his unjust acts, except for Hampshire; and he retained that until he killed the ealdorman who stood by him longest; and then Cynewulf drove him into the Weald, and he lived there until a swineherd stabbed him to death by the stream at Privett, and he was avenging Ealdorman Cumbra.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

Ealhswith, daughter of Ethelred, surnamed the Mickle, Ealdorman of the Gainas.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

This was an assemblage of the chief men of the county, and was, possibly, a formal survival of that council which, in Anglo-Saxon times, met with the Ealdorman to devise administrative measures for the county. 2

The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729) 1894

"It is hard on you as on any one, Ealdorman," I answered.

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

"Do you speak first, Ealdorman," I said, and he nodded and went his way.

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

Abbot Wulsy, and the Mercians had slain the Ealdorman of Lindsey when they turned on us, and many more lay in the place where the flight began, good men and noble sold to their deaths by the traitor.

King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

"Do not tell her anything, Ealdorman," Erpwald said.

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884