ealdorman

Historical Examples of ealdorman

• The government of the Ealdorman may not have been less effective than that of the King.

  The Growth of the English Constitution

  Edward A. Freeman

• The ealdorman may have contracted a dubious or a morganatic marriage.

  Domesday Book and Beyond

  Frederic William Maitland

• These are the ealdorman or earl, and the scirgerefa or sheriff.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6

  Various

• The ealdorman was taxed, might and main, to protect his own lands.

  The Ward of King Canute

  Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

• "So we shall have a good talk together," the ealdorman said.

  King Alfred's Viking

  Charles W. Whistler