File England 878ad.jpg 350px thumb right England in 878 the Danelaw is shown in yellow The Danelaw , as recorded ... historians to be geographical. The areas that comprised the Danelaw are in northern and eastern England. The origins of the Danelaw arose from the Viking expansion of the 9th century, although ... 221. ref Danelaw is also used to describe the set of legal terms and definitions created in the treaties ... of East Anglia , and the lands of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw Five Boroughs of Leicester , Nottingham , Derby , Stamford, Lincolnshire Stamford and Lincoln, England Lincoln . The prosperity of the Danelaw ... Viking raiders. Conflict with Wessex and Mercia sapped the strength of the Danelaw. The waning of its ... served as his Godparent godfather . ref Hadley, D. M. The Northern Danelaw Its Social Structure ... Davis, Camden 3rd ser., 84 1954 , xlv xlvi. ref The treaty outlined the boundaries of the Danelaw and allowed for Danish self rule in the region. The Danelaw represented a consolidation of power ..., Edward the Elder s Danelaw , in N. J. Higham & D. H. Hill eds, Edward the Elder 899 924 , Routledge ... Saxon kings, at Berkhamsted . The Danelaw appeared in legislation as late as the early twelfth ... established the boundaries of the Danelaw and allowed for Danish self rule in the region. 902 Essex ... . Thus ended any association with Scandinavia. Geography See also Five Boroughs of the Danelaw File ... 10th century ref Falkus & Gillingham and Hill ref The area occupied by the Danelaw was roughly ... to the east of the Pennines . Five fortified towns became particularly important in the Danelaw ... since developed further. Legal concepts The Danelaw was an important factor in the establishment ... wapentake , the standard for land division in the Danelaw, was effectively interchangeable with the hundred ..., Biddulph, Joseph Old Danish of the Old Danelaw . Pontypridd 2003. ISBN 978 1 897999 48 6. ref ... these languages in the Danelaw caused the incorporation of many Norse words into the English language ... more details
, and it was to form a formal administrative unit long into the future. See also Danelaw Geography Danelaw Treaty of Wedmore References reflist Category Geography of England Category Anglo Norse England ... Los cinco burgos de Danelaw fr Cinq Bourgs no De fem burgher i Danelagen sv Five Burghs ... more details
The term Danish Empire can refer to Canute the Great s rule over Denmark , Norway and England during the 11th century. See also Danelaw . Valdemar II of Denmark Valdemar the Victorious s conquests in northern Germany and Estonia in the 13th century. The Kalmar Union under the Danish monarchy. The Danish colonial empire in the Danish West Indies West Indies , Danish Gold Coast Gold Coast and Danish India India . See also Tranquebar . dab ... more details
Refimprove date January 2010 Anthropic Farm Units The virgate lang mla virg ta or yardland lang enm yardland was a English unit unit of land area measurement used in Middle Ages medieval England , typically outside the Danelaw , and was held to be the amount of land that a team of two oxen could plough in a single annual season. It was equivalent to a quarter of a Hide unit hide , so was nominally thirty Acre Historical origin acres . ref D. Hey ed., Oxford Companion to Local and Family History Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996 , 476. ref A virgater would thus be a peasant who occupied or worked this area of land, and a half virgater would be a person who occupied or worked about convert 15 acre m2 . The Danelaw equivalent of a virgate was two oxgang s, or bovates ref Stephen Friar, Batsford Companion to Local History Batsford, London 1991 , 270. ref as these names imply, the oxgang or bovate was considered to represent the amount of land that could be worked in a single annual season by a single ox, and therefore equated to half a virgate. As such, the oxgang represented a parallel division of the carucate . Accordingly, a bovater is the Danelaw equivalent of a half virgater. Virgate is an anglicisation of the Medieval Latin virgata . In some parts of England it was divided into four nooks lang enm noke lang mla noca . ref Noca nook measure of land R. W. Latham, Revised Mediaval Latin Word list Oxford University Press, London for British Academy 1965 , 312. ref Nooks were occasionally further divided into a farundel lang enm ferthendel lang ang f or an d l , fourth deal, fourth share . ref cite book title An Anglo Saxon Dictionary last Bosworth first Joseph authorlink Joseph Bosworth coauthors T. Northcote Toller year 1882 publisher Oxford University Press page 281 url http books.google.com books?id oXlii1KgDngC&printsec frontcover&source gbs v2 summary r&cad 0 v onepage&q &f false ref References Reflist Category Units of area Category Obsolete units of measure ... more details
Anthropic Farm Units The carucate lang mla carr c ta , from carr ca , wheeled plough or ploughland lang ang pl gesland , plough s land was a unit of assessment for tax used in most Danelaw counties of England, and is found for example in Domesday Book . The carucate was based on the area a plough team of eight Ox oxen could tillage till in a single annual season. It was sub divided into Oxgang oxgangs , or bovates , based on the area a single ox might till in the same period, which thus represented one eighth of a carucate and it was analogous to the hide unit hide , a unit of tax assessment used outside the Danelaw counties. ref Though a carucate might nominally be regarded as an area of 120 acre s 490,000 m , and can usefully be compared to the hide, the true picture is vastly more complex see e.g. Stenton, F.M., Introduction , in Foster, C.W. & Longley, T. eds. , The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey , Lincoln Record Society, XIX, 1924, especially pp. ix xix. ref The tax levied on each carucate came to be known as carucage . See also Feudal measurement References Reflist Category Obsolete units of measure Category Units of area et Adramaa ... more details
Framland was a hundred division hundred in north east Leicestershire , roughly corresponding to today s Melton borough borough of Melton . It was recorded in the Domesday Book as one of Leicestershire s four wapentake s. The name is still in use for a deanery of the Diocese of Leicester in the Church of England . The original meeting place of the hundred was at Great Framland . ref Sam Turner, http www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk 5 turner.html Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw ref External links references http freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com framland Map FramlandCs.html Map of Framland coord 52 50 N 00 48 W type adm3rd region GB display title Leicestershire geo stub Category Ancient subdivisions of Leicestershire ... more details
Guthlaxton was When date March 2011 a hundred division hundred of Leicestershire . It was in the south of the county, and covered Lutterworth and Wigston Magna . At the time of the Domesday Book , it was one of Leicestershire s four wapentake s, and covered a much larger area, including Market Bosworth and Hinckley , which would later be made part of the Sparkenhoe hundred. The original meeting place of the hundred was at the Guthlaxton stone. ref Sam Turner, http www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk 5 turner.html Aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw ref The Sparkenhoe hundred Sparkenhoe hundred was split from Guthlaxton in 1346. ref John Curtis, A Topographical History of the County of Leicester 1831 ref References references coord 52.5 1.2 region GB display title Leicestershire geo stub Category Ancient subdivisions of Leicestershire ... more details
Distinguish Danelaw Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Anglo Dane was a Denmark Danish automobile manufactured by H. C. Fredriksen of Copenhagen from 1902 to 1917. Fredriksen began by building bicycles in the 1890s for these he used United Kingdom British parts hence the name. The first cars were light trucks with single cylinder Belgian Kelecom engines. Later cars were produced with an own design single cylinder 4 5 horsepower hp engines these featured friction drive using double discs to give an equivalent 12 speed transmission. A few passenger cars were also built with twin cylinder engines before the company merged with Jan automobile Jan and Thrige automobile Thrige who made Triangel commercials until 1945. About 70 Anglo Danes were made. Category Brass Era vehicles Category Motor vehicle manufacturers of Denmark Category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers Denmark stub Brass auto stub Veteran auto stub de Anglo Dane nl Anglo Dane ... more details
Orm in Old Norse and in modern Danish language Danish , Swedish language Swedish , Norwegian language Norwegian bokm l and nynorsk the word for snake , worm or dragon became an Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon personal name during period of the Danelaw . It may refer to Orm, the author of the 12th century Ormulum the commissioner of the Kirkdale sundial the Ocean Master , a DC Comics supervillain and half brother to Aquaman ORM as an acronym may refer to Oak Ridges Moraine Object relational mapping , a software programming issue in linking object oriented code with relational databases Object role modeling , a method for conceptual modeling. Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos , an observatory on the island of La Palma Online reputation management Online research methods Operational risk management , a concept for safety in operations planning and execution Oromo language ISO 639 code Orosomucoid Outsourcing relationship management Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire England IATA airport code disambig See also ORM D de ORM eo ORM fr ORM homonymie it ORM nl ORM ... more details
Image St Peters Chapel geograph.org.uk 42833.jpg thumb St Peters Chapel. Image Victorian Pillar box in Owlswick geograph.org.uk 43219.jpg thumb Victorian Pillar box in Owlswick. Image Working windpump near Owlswick geograph.org.uk 43221.jpg thumb Working windpump near Owlswick. Owlswick is a hamlet place hamlet in Buckinghamshire , England , about 3 miles E of Thame and 4 miles SSE of Aylesbury . It is part of the civil parishes in England civil parish of Longwick cum Ilmer and is in the ecclesiastical parish of Monks Risborough . The name appears in a document of about 1200 as Ulveswike, meaning the dairy farm of Ulf, which was a Danish personal name. The district is well to the south of the Danelaw , but a man of Danish origin may have come south and settled here. ref Mawer & Stenton The Place Names of Buckinghamshire Cambridge 1925 ref The hamlet was not mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086 because it formed part of the manor of Monks Risborough . It was later subinfeudated i.e. granted as a feudal sub manor to a military subtenant and was held by knight service by the 13th century. It continued as a separate sub manor, paying a quit rent to the manor of Monks Risborough until copyhold tenure was abolished in 1925. ref Victoria History of the County of Buckingham Vol.2 1908 p.257 ref Today the hamlet is small but picturesque, and affords magnificent views of the nearby Chiltern Hills . References reflist Coord 51.74895 0.85850 region GB type landmark display title Wycombe Category Hamlets in Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire geo stub ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2010 Free Tenants , also known as Free Peasants , were peasant s in Medieval England who occupied a unique place in the Feudal society Medieval hierarchy . They were characterised by the low rents they paid to their Manorialism Manorial Lord as well as being subject to fewer laws and ties than villein s. Definition One of the major challenges in examining the Free Peasants of this era is that no one single definition can be attached to them. The disparate nature of manorial holdings and local laws mean the Free Tenant in Kent , for example, may well bear little resemblance to the Free Tenant in the Danelaw . Attempts were made by some contemporary scholars to set out a legal definition of freedom, one of the most notable being the treatise by Ranulf de Glanvill written between 1187 and 1189. This stated that cquote2 He who claims to be free shall produce in court several near blood relatives descended from the same stock as himself, and if they are admitted or proved in court to be free, then the claimant himself will be freed from the yoke of servitude Another way to identify a freeman in the Middle Ages , was to determine what kind of taxes or laws he had to obey. For example having to pay merchet , a tax paid upon the marriage of a servile woman, was a key sign of being unfree. Category Agricultural labor Category Feudalism de Zinsbauer ... more details
Robin Hood s Progress to Nottingham is Child ballad 139, a Robin Hood ballad, and in fact an original story. Synopsis A fifteen year old Robin Hood set out to Nottingham to compete in a shooting contest. The king s foresters make fun of him, offering a bet that he could not kill a deer. When he does so, they refuse to pay. Robin shoots fourteen of them and flees to the forest. In the late 16th century Sloane Life of Robin Hood a version of this story is told, probably from a lost earlier version of the ballad. The Sloane version makes Robin Hood s actions more explicable and less gratuitously bloodthirsty the foresters had bet their money against Robin Hood s head or life, and one of them tried to put him off his aim. Having won the wager Robin waived the debt for all of the foresters except that one, suggesting that they drink the money together. This was not good enough for the foresters and the quarrel developed with fatal results for them. The Sloane account, unlike the extant ballad, makes no mention however of a general mayhem of Nottingham townsmen. Adaptions Although this tale never became as definitive as many origin stories for the Merry Men, Howard Pyle used it in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood , modifying it slightly the foresters also threaten to arrest him for poaching, one tries to shoot him, and that one is the only one he kills. The Location Nottingham was founded as an Anglo Saxon settlement and in the 9th Century by the Danes conquered. Under the Danelaw Nottingham was one of five boroughs.From the beginning, there were parts of the settlement of caves that were carved into the soft sandstone. The town was name as Tigguo Cobauc House of Caves and Snottingham.The present inhabitants of the city are certainly grateful that the S was lost with time, as snotty as much as to say in English, snotty or common . Nottingham was founded as an Anglo Saxon settlement and in the 9th Century by the Danes conquered. Under the Danelaw Nottingham was one of fi ... more details
Thynghowe was an important Danelaw meeting place, or Thing assembly thing , located in Sherwood Forest , Nottinghamshire , England . It was lost to history until its rediscovery in 2005 6 by local history enthusiasts. ref Moss, Richard Apr. 25, 2008 . http www.culture24.org.uk history 2526 heritage archaeology art56785 Amateur Archaeologists Find Ancient Thyng In Sherwood Forest . Culture24. ref The site lies amidst the old oaks of an area known as the Birklands in Sherwood Forest. Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria . English Heritage has recently inspected the site, and has confirmed it was known as Thynghowe in 1334 and 1609. ref http www.pastscape.org hob.aspx?hob id 1461548&search all&criteria thynghowe Thynghowe . PastScape, English Heritage. ref It functioned as a place where people came to resolve disputes and settle issues. It is an Old Norse word, although the site may be older than the Danelaw, perhaps even Bronze Age . The word howe is derived from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound. This often indicates the presence of a prehistoric burial mound . ref http www.viking.no e england e viking words 2.htm Standard English words which have a Scandinavian Etymology . ref The word thyng or Thing assembly thing is Old Norse, Old English and Icelandic ing other modern Scandinavian languages ting was the governing assembly in Germanic and introduced into some Celtic societies, made up of the free people of the community and presided by lawspeakers, meeting in a place called a thingstead. References reflist Other sources Gaunt, Andy Jun. 30, 2011 . http issuu.com piro.co.uk docs thynghowe survey report final july 2011 A Topographic Earthwork Survey of Thynghowe, Hanger Hill, Nottinghamshire . NCA 016. http issuu.com piro.co.uk docs according to ancient custom thynghowe?mode window&backgroundColor 23222222 According to Ancient Custom Research on the possible Origins and Purpose ... more details
TOC right This article presents a timeline of events in British history before 1000 AD. Timeline of Prehistoric Britain Timeline of British history 1000 1499 To 999 AD AD 43 Roman invasion of Britain, ordered by Claudius, who dispatched Aulus Plautius and an army of some 40,000 men. 60 Revolt against the Roman occupation, led by Boudica of the Iceni , begins. c. 84 Romans defeat Caledonians at the battle of Mons Graupius c. 122 Construction of Hadrian s Wall begins c. 383 Beginning of Roman withdrawal from Britain 410 Last Roman leaves Britain and tells the natives to defend themselves from other invaders overseas, as Rome is under attack from the Goths 449 Hengest , Saxon leader, arrives in England c. 466 Battle of Wippedesfleot 597 Arrival of Augustine of Canterbury St. Augustine 793 vikings Viking raid on Lindisfarne 802 vikings Viking ransack monastery on Iona 843 The birth of the Kingdom of Scotland with the union of the Picts and the Gaels Scots 878 Battle of Ethandun , defeat of Viking forces, results in the Treaty of Wedmore and the establishment of the Danelaw 895 Danish fleet captured by Alfred the Great See also British Iron Age Early Middle Ages Timeline of British history History of the British Isles History of England History of Ireland History of Northern Ireland History of Scotland History of Wales History of the United Kingdom Prehistory References reflist 2 External links Category British history timelines vi Ni n bi u l ch s Anh tr c 1000 ... more details
In England and Scotland , a toft village is a Human settlement settlement comprising small and relatively closely packed farms tofts with the surrounding land owned and farmed by those who live in the village s buildings. Late Old English toft , with Old English declension plural toftas tofts. Toft as a placename element is usually dated to the Viking age by place name historians. ref Mats Riddersporre, Settlement Site Village Site Analysis of the Toft Structure in Some Medieval Villages and Its Relation to Late Iron Age Settlements. A Preliminary Report and Some Tentative Ideas Based on Scanian Examples Geografiska Annaler . Series B, Human Geography, 70 1 1988 75 85 p. 80, noting B. Holmberg, Tomt och toft som appelativ och ortnamnselement , Skrifter urgivna af Kungl. Gustaf Adolfs Akademien 17 Uppsala, 1946, and B. Pamp, Ortnamn i Sk ne , 1983. ref Placenames ending in toft are usually of Old Norse derivation, topt meaning site of a house . ref English Etymology , T. F. Hoad, Oxford University Press 1993. ref Examples are Langtoft disambiguation Langtoft , Habertoft , Huttoft , Knaptoft , Lowestoft , Newtoft , Scraptoft , Sibbertoft , Stowlangtoft , Wibtoft , Yelvertoft and various places simply called Toft in the former Danelaw . This typical Old Norse element allows to estimate the extension of Scandinavian settlements in the Middle Ages such as in Schleswig Holstein toft Langstoft , Havetoft , de Struxdorf Koltoft , Goltoft , Kaltoft ... , Normandy tot Lanquetot , Colletot , Caltot , Hottot les Bagues Hottot , Hotot en Auge Hotot ... , etc. References references DEFAULTSORT Toft Village Category Rural geography Category Human habitats Geo term stub ... more details
thelstan floruit 940&ndash 970 was an Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon nobleman. He served as an Ealdorman in southern Mercia in the reigns of Kings Eadwig of England Eadwig and Edgar of England Edgar . He is referred to as thelstan Rota thelstan the Red in one charter, and is so known to distinguish him from thelstan Half King , and another thelstan floruit fl. 940&ndash 949 , who were Ealdormen in the same period. thelstan rose to prominence in the reign of King Eadwig thelfl d of Damerham , second wife of Eadwig s father King Edmund I of England Edmund , and thus Eadwig s stepmother, was married to this thelstan. thelfl d was a woman of considerable influence, and not merely as a relict of King Edmund her father lfgar is described as a dux and Ealdorman of Essex. thelstan appears to have had lands in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire . He is a frequent witness to charters of Kings Eadwig and Edgar. The Life of Saint Dunstan records a vision by a nobleman named thelstan and Dunstan s interpretation of it as presaging the death of the king and ill times to come. It is not known whether this thelstan or thelstan Half King is the thelstan referred to. References Hart, Cyril, The Danelaw. Hambledon, 1992. ISBN 1 85285 044 2 Williams, Ann, Smyth, Alfred P., and D.P. Kirkby, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain. Seaby, 1991. ISBN 1 85264 047 2 External links http eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk 8080 pase persons CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey 10132 thelstan at the Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Aethelstan Rota ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Aethelstan Rota Category Anglo Saxon ealdormen Category 10th century English people Category Year of birth unknown Category Year of death unknown ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Coord 54.970 2.692 display title region GB scale 50000 Burtholme refers to any of a civil parish in Cumbria , a hamlet place hamlet within that parish or a family name originally linked to the place. It also appears in Burtholme Beck , which marks a significant point on Hadrian s Wall . Burtholme Civil Parish Burtholme is a civil parish within the city of City of Carlisle Carlisle in Cumbria , in North West England . Civil parishes such as Burtholme were established in 1894. The villages of Lanercost and Banks, Cumbria Banks are in the parish. Burtholme sits within the ecclesiastical parish of Lanercost Priory Lanercost , along with the civil parishes of Askerton , Kingwater and Waterhead, Carlisle Waterhead on the banks of the River Irthing . Hadrian s Wall runs through the parish. Burtholme Burtholme is also a small hamlet within the parish. The land around the hamlet extends down to the River Irthing and presumably is the holme a piece of flat low lying ground by a river or stream of Burtholme or Burt s holme . The name dates back to the Danelaw and was well established by the time that Lanercost Priory was founded in 1169, the founding charter of which made Burtholme Beck the western boundary of its land. Burtholme Beck Burtholme Beck is a small beck running through the parish of Burtholme feeding into the River Irthing . It is crossed by Hadrian s Wall and marks the point at which the stone wall to the east became, for a period, a turf wall as limestone to the east gave way to red sandstone. Category Civil parishes in Cumbria Category Hamlets in Cumbria nl Burtholme sv Burtholme ... more details
Infobox French commune name D nestanville region Haute Normandie department Seine Maritime arrondissement Dieppe canton Longueville sur Scie INSEE 76214 postal code 76590 mayor Andr Prieur term intercommunality Varenne et Scie longitude 1.0975 latitude 49.8117 elevation m 53 elevation min m 45 elevation max m 118 area km2 2.69 population 208 population date 2006 D nestanville is a Communes of France commune in the Seine Maritime Departments of France department in the Haute Normandie Regions of France region in northern France . Geography A farming village situated by the banks of the river Scie in the Pays de Caux , some convert 8 mi km south of Dieppe, Seine Maritime Dieppe , at the junction of the D107 and the D3 roads. History Danestanvilla 1051, Donestanville 1088, Dunestanvilla 1142. Dunstan s farm, name of an Anglo Saxon farmer who came from danelaw with the danes, probably in the 10th century, to settle in Normandy. Seat of the family de Dunstanville. See Reginald de Dunstanville . Population Demography 1962 146 1968 173 1975 172 1982 187 1990 251 1999 237 2006 208 withoutdoublecount 1962 Places of interest A chateau. The church of St.Martin, dating from the twelfth century. See also Communes of the Seine Maritime department Seine Maritime Normandy References http www.insee.fr en home home page.asp INSEE Reflist External links http www.quid.fr communes.html?mode detail&id 16404&req D nestanville D nestanville on the Quid website Fr Seine Maritime communes DEFAULTSORT Denestanville Category Communes of Seine Maritime Dieppe geo stub ca D nestanville ceb D nestanville es D nestanville eu D nestanville fr D nestanville it D nestanville mg D nestanville nl D nestanville oc D nestanville pms D nestanville pl D nestanville pt D nestanville sk D nestanville uk vi D nestanville vo D nestanville war D nestanville ... more details
The title Instituta Cnuti , in full Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum Institutes of Cnut and other kings of the English , refers to a legal compilation which cites, in Latin translation, selected material of Old English law. It was put together by an Anglo Norman cleric, possibly at Worcester, sometime after the Conquest, between 1066 and 1123 4. ref O Brien, On the Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum , p. 186. ref The text is preserved in the Textus Roffensis and six later manuscripts dating from the 12th and early 13th century. ref O Brien, On the Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum , p. 177. ref The work consists of three sections. The first two contain passages from Cnut the Great Cnut s two law codes I Cnut and II Cnut , occasionally with amendments by the compiler to suit contemporary circumstances. The last section has material excerpted from the laws of Ine of Wessex Ine , Alfred the Great Alfred and Edgar the Peaceable Edgar II Edgar as well as unofficial legal tracts associated with Wulfstan II of York Wulfstan, Archbishop of York , like Ge ync u . The selection shows that the translator took particular interest in secular Danelaw. The standard edition is still that of Felix Liebermann in his monumental Gesetze der Angelsachsen . More recently, Bruce O Brien has criticised Liebermann s work and illustrated the need for a new critical edition. ref O Brien, On the Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum , pp. 178 181. ref The Institute may be compared to the Consiliatio Cnuti , which offers a near complete Latin translation of Cnut s legislation. References reflist Further reading Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum , ed. Felix Liebermann , Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen . vol 1. pp. 612 7. Liebermann, Felix. On the Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum . Transactions of the Royal Historical Society NS 7 1893 pp. 77 107. O Brien, Bruce. The Instituta Cnuti and the translation of English law. Anglo Norman Studies 25 2003 . 177 19 ... more details
Gunhild of Wessex 1055 1097 was the eldest daughter of Harold Godwinson and Edith the Fair . Life Her parents were married in common law. Even though their marriage was not recognized by the church, their children were treated as if they were legitimate. She remained in Britain after her father s death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and received her education at Wilton Abbey . This was a centre of learning, which attracted many high born women, both English and Norman. Matilda of Scotland was educated here, with her sister Mary of Scotland, Countess of Boulogne Mary . It was also the home of the poetess Muriel. ref cite book title Matilda of Scotland a Study in Medieval Queenship last Honeycutt first Lois page 18 year 2003 publisher The Boydell Press location Woodbridge ref Since, according to Danelaw , she was the heiress of her mother s claims to some counties, she attracted the attention of Alan the Red , who abducted and then married her. After his death in 1089, she married his brother Alan the Black. ref cite book last Honeycutt first Lois page 24 year 2003 ref In Fiction In Judith Tarr s novel King s Blood , she is set by Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile Abbess Christina to shape Matilda of Scotland Princess Edith into a proper Saxon , but secretly hates her life there and the Wilton Abbey. In the novel, she freely leaves the abbey with Edith and gives herself to Alan the Red, contrary to history, where she is abducted. References References Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gunhild Of Wessex ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1055 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1097 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gunhild Of Wessex Category Anglo Norse people Category Anglo Saxon people Category 1055 births Category 1097 deaths Category House of Godwin Category Anglo Saxon women Category 11th century in England Category 11th century English people Category 11th century women ... more details
In 1087, the first recorded use of the name was as Laegrecastrescir . In the Anglo Saxon period the area was originally in the territory of the Middle Angles and later Mercia . After the Danish invasions it was included in the Danelaw, whose boundary ran on the south western boundary of the shire. Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentake s Guthlaxton , Framland , Goscote and Gartree hundred Gartree . These later became hundred division hundred s, with the division of Goscote into West Goscote and East Goscote hundred East Goscote , and the addition of Sparkenhoe hundred. Leicestershire s external boundaries have changed little since the Domesday Survey. The Measham Donisthorpe exclave of Derbyshire has been exchanged for the Netherseal Overseall area, and the urban expansion of Market Harborough has caused Little Bowdon , previously in Northamptonshire to be annexed. Anglo Saxon diocese A bishopric of the Middle Angles was established here in 680, and the Anglo Saxon cathedral was probably located close to if not on the site of the present cathedral. The original diocese fell victim to the invasion by the Danes around 870 and after the establishment of the Danelaw in 886 the diocese s seat was moved to Oxfordshire and, taking over the existing Diocese of Lindine created in 678 , became the Diocese of Dorchester . Rutland and Leicester In 1974, due to the Local Government Act 1972 , the county of Rutland was annexed to Leicestershire as a Districts of England district , and Leicester s county borough status was abolished, it becoming a district also. In 1974, the Local Government Act 1972 abolished the county borough status of Leicester and the county status of neighbouring Rutland , converting both to administrative Districts of England districts of Leicestershire. These actions were reversed on 1 April 1997, when Rutland and the City of Leicester became unitary authorities. Rutland became a distinct Ceremonial County once again, although i ... more details
Refimprove date March 2010 Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Tettenhall image caption partof date 5 August 910 place Tettenhall or Wednesfield , Mercia , modern day Wolverhampton result Decisive Anglo Saxons Anglo Saxon victory combatant1 center Image RavenBanner.svg 70px br Danelaw Vikings combatant2 center Image Saint Alban s cross.svg 70px Image Wyvern of Wessex.svg 70px br Mercia , Wessex commander1 King Eowils br King Halfdan commander2 Edward the Elder King Edward of Wessex strength1 Unknown strength2 Unknown casualties1 Heavy, in the thousands br Eowils and Halfdan King Eowils br Eowils and Halfdan King Halfdan casualties2 Unknown The Battle of Tettenhall sometimes referred to as the Battle of W dnesfeld took place, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle near Tettenhall, on the 5 August 910 . The allied forces of Mercia and Wessex met an army of Northumbrian Vikings in Mercia . The allied army scored a great victory over the Viking force, the last major army sent by the Danes Germanic tribe Danes to ravage England. Background After successful raids by Danish Vikings , significant parts of North Eastern England, formerly Northumbria , were under their control. Danish attacks into central England had been resisted and effectively reduced by Alfred the Great , to the point where his son, Edward the Elder King Edward of Wessex , could launch offensive attacks against the foreigners. Edward was allied with the Mercians under his sister thelfleda , and their combined forces were formidable. The allies launched a five week campaign against Kingdom of Lindsey Lindsey in 909, and successfully captured the relics of Saint Oswald of Northumbria . The battle The Vikings quickly sought retaliation for the Northern excursion. In 910, the Danelaw Kings assembled a fleet and transported a Danish army, via the River Severn , directly into the heart of Mercia. There they ravaged the land and collected large amounts of valuable plunder, but quickly sought to r ... more details
Infobox UK feature country England official name Aveland static image static image alt static image caption static image width 240px map alt AveLand is a former wapentake of Lincolnshire, east of Grantham and south of Sleaford latitude 52.85 longitude 0.416 shire county state Lincolnshire map name United Kingdom Lincolnshire os grid reference TF 0675 2961 website Aveland was a Wapentake of Kesteven from the time of the Danelaw until the Local Government Act 1888 . Its meeting place was The Aveland at gbmapping TF 0675 2961 in the parish of Aslackby . ref cite web url http www.pastscape.org.uk hob.aspx?hob id 348358 title National Monument record for The Aveland moat ref Origins Aveland was probably established as an administrative unit soon after 921 when Edward the Elder ably assisted until 918, by Ethelfleda thelfl d had restored English rule in the part of he Danelaw represented by Kesteven. The wapentake included the parishes of Aslackby, Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne , Dembleby , Dowsby , Dunsby , Folkingham , Haconby , Haceby , Horbling , Kirkby Underwood , Laughton, South Kesteven Laughton , Morton and Hanthorpe Morton , Newton, Lincolnshire Newton , Osbournby , Pickworth, Lincolnshire Pickworth , Pointon , Rippingale , Sempringham , Spanby , Swaton , Threekingham and Walcot, Lincolnshire Walcot some of which have since been amalgamated. There is documentary evidence for a settlement called Avethorpe, from the Domesday survey onwards, but no actual location is known. ref cite web url http www.pastscape.org.uk hob.aspx?hob id 348363 title Natnional Monument record for Avethorpe ref Decline Between 921 and 1888, the administrative significance of the wapentake was reduced by many small steps. The first was as a result of the invasion of England by Sweyn I of Denmark Swein in 1013. The Kesteven people supported it so that, when order was restored, the County United Kingdom shire of Lincoln was set up and given powers over the wapentakes. Subsequently, piecemeal, ... more details
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