ealdorman
Americannoun
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ealdormen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ealdorman
Old English ealdor lord + man
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The British actor was best known for playing rich ealdorman Aethelhelm in Netflix historical series The Last Kingdom and steward Cornelius Penge in ITV royal drama Victoria.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
Meanwhile Lady Ragna, daughter of a Norman lord, has the misfortune of marrying into a family of noble brutes, chief among them the ealdorman Wilfwulf, her philandering husband, and Bishop Wynstan, his philandering brother.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2020
“Yet methinks that there is the sound of truth in the maiden’s words,” spoke the ealdorman.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
“Speaks he the truth, think ye?” inquired the ealdorman of the bishop and the gerefa.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
If the Saxons were hearty eaters and drinkers and believers in good cheer, insisting upon their four meals a day from ealdorman to ceorl, the Danes surpassed them.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
In England, though, in theory, the relations between the king and his ealdormen were not very different from those existing between the Norman duke and his immediate vassals, the connection between them was far looser.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Hence hunting was the chief pastime of the princes and ealdormen when they were not engaged in war with one another or with the Welsh.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
It is under Cnut, and the following Danish kings, that we gradually lose sight of the old ealdormen.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
The King's policy of finding aid among his new ministers broke down when these became themselves ealdormen.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
He now called on all the shires to furnish ships for a fleet; but he could not trust his ealdormen.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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