When the separate kingdoms became united, their different Councils were absorbed into the one great Gemot of Wessex.
To these festivities, Canute evidently invited the magnates of England; for we learn that a midwinter gemot was held in London, at which the Danish pretender received universal recognition as king of all England.
The lords who attended this gemot were probably the local leaders south of the Thames; that the chiefs of the Danelaw were in attendance is very unlikely.
But if Florence's account is trustworthy, the status of the two was discussed at the Christmas gemot following Edmund's death in 1016.
The plotting was apparently localised in the south-western shires, as we infer from the fact that the gemot sat in an unusual place, Cirencester in the Severn country.
Some time during the first half of the year, a gemot was summoned to meet at Oxford, near the border of the Danelaw.
The witena-gemot was continued, under the name of the Great Council.
The witena-gemot was, in its latter days, at all events, a council of magnates and royal officers, and to trace any analogy or direct continuity between it and the House of Commons is misleading in the extreme.
The natural choice of the Witena-gemot would have been Edward, the son of Edward's elder brother, who had been sent to Hungary by the King of Sweden.
In 955 the Witena-gemot chose Edwy, the son of Edmund, for their king, and within a short while Dunstan was banished from the kingdom.
To draw these two earls into his power, the king convened the Witena-gemot at Oxford, where he caused them to be murdered, and then seized their estates, as if they had been condemned by the common forms of justice.
His army was now so considerable that he ventured to take the field; and, marching to London, he summoned the Witena-gemot to judge the rebellion of Godwin and his sons.
After Sweyn's death Oxford was chosen as the meeting-place of the great gemot of the kingdom.
At this gemot "Danes and Angles were unanimous, at Oxford, for Eadgar's law.
The Gemot is summoned to meet this day week--that is on the third of October--and we shall wait to hear what steps they take.
The Gemot has voted the deposition of Tostig, has even had the insolence to declare him an outlaw, and has elected Morcar in his place.
The King of Norway had offered favourable terms; a local Gemot had been held, and it had been agreed to make peace with Harold of Norway, and not only to receive him as king but to join him in his warfare against the South.
We hear to-day that the Northumbrian nobles have summoned a Gemot to meet, which amounts in fact to a rebellion, not only against Tostig but against the king.
We know only that, after Harold had won over Northumberland, he came back and held the Easter Gemot at Westminster.
At the Pentecostal Gemot of 1076, held at Westminster, his case was again argued, and he was sentenced to death.
In the winter of 1083 he hastened from the death- bed of his wife to the siege of Sainte-Susanne, and thence to the Midwinter Gemot in England.
Statesmen of our own day might do well to study the meagre records of the Gemot of 1047.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gemot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
