Alfred the GreatMacmillan & Company, 1891 - 334 pages |
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Page 28
... Ethelwulf . The thegn was , however , simply an owner of land , and so a seat in the Great Council was in fact open to any cheorl , even it would seem to any thrall who could earn or win as his own five hides of land , a church , a ...
... Ethelwulf . The thegn was , however , simply an owner of land , and so a seat in the Great Council was in fact open to any cheorl , even it would seem to any thrall who could earn or win as his own five hides of land , a church , a ...
Page 32
... Ethelwulf and Osberga , the King of the West Saxons had already established his authority as lord over the other Teutonic kingdoms in England . Until the time of Egbert , the father of Ethelwulf , this over- lordship had shifted from ...
... Ethelwulf and Osberga , the King of the West Saxons had already established his authority as lord over the other Teutonic kingdoms in England . Until the time of Egbert , the father of Ethelwulf , this over- lordship had shifted from ...
Page 33
... Ethelwulf , from his youth up , had been of a strongly devotional turn , and was too much under the influence of the clergy to please his father . He would probably have followed his natural bent , and entered holy orders , but that ...
... Ethelwulf , from his youth up , had been of a strongly devotional turn , and was too much under the influence of the clergy to please his father . He would probably have followed his natural bent , and entered holy orders , but that ...
Page 34
... Ethelwulf marched himself against the Welsh with Buhred , and pursued their king , Roderic Mawr , to Anglesey , where he acknowledged Ethelwulf as his over - lord , who returning in triumph to Wessex , there at the royal burgh of ...
... Ethelwulf marched himself against the Welsh with Buhred , and pursued their king , Roderic Mawr , to Anglesey , where he acknowledged Ethelwulf as his over - lord , who returning in triumph to Wessex , there at the royal burgh of ...
Page 35
... Ethelwulf's request , in order to found a claim to the succession for his favourite son , is unknown . In any case , no such special claim was ever urged by Alfred himself . Leo was no unworthy spiritual father to such a boy . He was ...
... Ethelwulf's request , in order to found a claim to the succession for his favourite son , is unknown . In any case , no such special claim was ever urged by Alfred himself . Leo was no unworthy spiritual father to such a boy . He was ...
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