The whole executive government may be considered as a great aristocratical association, of which the ealdormen were the members, and the king little more than the president.
He swept away the great ealdormen who had been such a curse to the land, slaying the traitor Eadric the Grasper, and Uhtred the turbulent governor of Northumbria.
He bade the ealdormen drive them off; but they were too much occupied with their own quarrels to stir.
Yet the king was not wholly to blame for the misfortunes of his reign, for the great ealdormen had their share in the guilt.
But he found the great ealdormen unruly subjects; they would not obey a young boy as they had obeyed the great Eadgar.
Subordinate to the ealdormen were the gerefas, the sheriffs, or reeves, of whom there were several in every shire, or county.
Let this statute be observed, he continues, by Earl Oslac, and all the host who dwell under his government, and let it be transmitted by writ to the ealdormen of the other subordinate states.
Step by step, smaller Kings or independent Ealdormen admitted the supremacy of a more powerful King.
This process of dismemberment, where a nominal supremacy is still kept by the original Sovereign, must be distinguished from that of falling back upon Dukes or Ealdormen after a period of kingly rule.
I am one of King Alfred's ealdormen of Wessex, Edmund by name.
In addition to the battles which have been spoken of several others had been fought in different parts of Wessex by the ealdormen and their followers against bodies of invading Danes.
The kingly authority had greatly increased, and the great ealdormen were no longer semi-independent nobles, but officers of the crown.
It will be best to send orders to the ealdormen and thanes to send hither privately the smiths, armourers, and shield-makers in the villages and towns.
The ealdormen whose seats of government bordered on the sea were ordered to construct ships of war, so that any Danish armament might be met at sea.
Alfred therefore called his ealdormen together and proposed to them, that since the people would no longer fight, the sole means that remained to escape destruction was to offer to buy off the Danes.
Its Witenagemot or meeting of wise men was the host's council of war, the gathering of those ealdormen who had brought the men of their villages to the field.
Kings as weak as Æthelred could drive ealdormen into exile and could replace them by fresh nominees.
North of the Tyne the Danes apparently spread but sparsely; English ealdormen continued to rule at Bamborough over the land between Forth and Tyne.
The ealdormen who led the various marauding bands assumed royal power in the new country.
But such government as existed was mainly that of the local ealdormen and the village gentry.
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.
The love of justice and truth was one of the main traits of Alfred's character, and he painfully perceived that the ealdormen of shires, though faithful and valiant warriors, were not learned and impartial enough to administer justice.
He raised the dignity of ealdormenand bishops to that of the highest rank.
At Buttington, on the Severn, he was overtaken by the Mercians under Aethelred, supported by reinforcements brought up from Wessex by Ealdormen Aethelhelm, and Aethelnoth, and other troops from Wales.
The minority of the king left the rival ealdormen and reeves ill-controlled, and there is some reason to think that the monachizing religious policy of Eadgar and St. Dunstan was greatly resented.
Its walls were ruinous, and it was taken and sacked; but immediately afterwards the Vikings were attacked by the men of Berkshire and Hampshire, under the Ealdormen Aethelwulf and Osric, and totally routed.
Siric, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and two ealdormen were sent as an embassy to the viking camp to sue for peace.
And also my ealdormen I command that they help the bishops to the rights of the Church and to the rights of my kingship and to the behoof of all the people.
They had been named, like the ealdormen or earls, by the king with the consent of the Witenagemot.
The dispute came at a bad time, because there was also a quarrel among the ealdormen and other great men.
Eadwig was hardly more than fifteen years old, and it would be difficult for a boy to keep order amongst the great ealdormen and earls.
In a single year he fought six battles; but the treachery of the ealdormenwas not at an end, and at Assandun (?
Such ealdormen had great influence in their own districts, and they also were very powerful about the king.
Its bishops had sat side by side with the ealdormen or earls in the shire-moots, and in the Witenagemot itself.
The great ealdormen were to be conciliated, not to be repressed.
The king could not control the ealdormen, and the ealdormen could not control the king.
At last the ealdormen of the north and centre of England revolted and set up the king's brother, Eadgar, to be king of all England north of the Thames.
In England, though, in theory, the relations between the king and his ealdormenwere not very different from those existing between the Norman duke and his immediate vassals, the connection between them was far looser.
Before the end of Eadred's reign there were ealdormen who ruled over many shires.
The members of the Witenagemot had attended because they were officially connected with the king, being ealdormen or bishops or thegns serving in some way under him.
It would have been difficult for Æthelred to overpower the ealdormen even if he had had no other enemies to deal with.
After satisfying himself as to the chances of a sudden attack, he had returned to Athelney and sent messengers to the thegns and ealdormen of neighboring shires, giving them a tryst for the second week in May.
Tell only those ealdormen and others whom thou mayest need who can be trusted.
She never forgot her experience there, and she afterwards said that it laid the foundation of her future greater work.
Nothing was at the first visit done but giving warm clothing to the most destitute; William Forster having told of the wretchedness caused by the severity of the cold that January of 1813.
This year two ealdormen came to Britain, Cerdic and Cynric, his son, with five ships, at the place which is called Cerdicesora.
Subordinate to the ealdormen were the gerefas, the sheriffs, or reeves, of whom there were several in every shire, or county.
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