| His appointment to the office of ealdorman in 1007 was probably an attempt by Ethelred to unite south-central England under one command. |
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| A Continental ealdorman who in 495 landed in Hampshire, Cerdic was attacked at once by the Britons. |
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| The eorl, as a great royal officer, superseded the ealdorman and was sometimes set over several counties, in the courts of each of which he presided with the bishop of the diocese. |
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| Beornwulf was slain suppressing a revolt amongst the East Angles, and his successor, a former ealdorman named Ludeca, met the same fate. |
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| Another ealdorman, Wiglaf, subsequently ruled for less than two years before being driven out of Mercia by Egbert. |
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| After the reconquest by Edward the Elder the king's representative in Essex was styled an ealdorman and Essex came to be regarded as a shire. |
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| Led by their ealdorman, Byrhtnoth, they faced up to a larger Viking force at the River Blackwater. |
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| However, they stopped during their march to capture a small fortress at Countisbury Hill, held by a Wessex ealdorman named Odda. |
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| Some shires were grouped together into larger units known as earldoms, headed by an ealdorman or earl. |
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| Eadred was a son of Edward the Elder by his third marriage, to Eadgifu, daughter of Sigehelm, ealdorman of Kent. |
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| Leofric was the son of the last ealdorman of the Hwicce, the ancient kingdom which once encompassed Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. |
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| Sussex seems to have had its own ealdorman for much of the 10th century. |
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| A letter written by Alcuin in 797 to a Mercian ealdorman named Osbert makes it apparent that Offa had gone to great lengths to ensure that his son Ecgfrith would succeed him. |
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| The ruling class was the ealdorman and thanes, there were freeholders, holding their own land and other freemen such as tradesmen, craftsmen, merchants and clergy. |
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| At this point Eadric Streona, the Ealdorman of Mercia, deserted Aethelred together with 40 ships and their crews and joined forces with Cnut. |
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| In 911 Ealdorman Aethelred died, leaving his widow, Alfred's daughter Aethelflaed, in charge of Mercia. |
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