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  • noun Plural form of ealdorman.

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Examples

  • The nobles seem to have resembled our 'ealdormen' in the very earliest phase of our history, and to have exercised considerable influence, notwithstanding the absolutism of the ruling head.

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • It's noticeable that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Alfred's time, by which time it was being written more or less contemporarily with events, records celestial phenomena, consecrations of bishops and deaths of bishops, kings and ealdormen, but not births, not even the births of King Alfred's children.

    Acha of Deira and Bernicia: daughter, sister, wife and mother of kings Carla 2007

  • This 934 charter of King Athelstan of England acting in the Danish North was attested by fifty-eight witnesses whose names are not appended here; they include two archbishops, three sub-kings, sixteen bishops, seven ealdormen, six earls, eleven thegns.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • He was also, as now, the supreme judge, and received appeals in person, from all the ordinary courts of judicature: the ealdormen, sheriffs, and other officers of those courts, holding their appointments at his pleasure.

    Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

  • Acting with the king, it made laws, imposed taxes, concluded treaties, appointed ealdormen and bishops, and occasionally heard cases not disposed of in the courts of the shire and hundred.

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • The persons most likely to be summoned were the members of the royal family, the greater ecclesiastics, the king's gesiths or thegns, the ealdormen who administered the shires, other leading officers of state and of the household, and the principal men who held land directly of the king.

    The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

  • At the head of the hall sits the chief with his chosen ealdormen.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • And the half-dozen ealdormen present bent toward one another in hasty consultation.

    The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893

  • One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • By the usual promises of land and pay a band of warriors was drawn for this purpose from Jutland in 449 with two ealdormen, Hengist and Horsa, at their head.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

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