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2 giorni fa · Godiva was a historic person, the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, mother of Ælfgar, Earl of East Anglia, and grandmother of Edwin and Morcar and of Aldgyth, wife of Gruffyd, Prince of Wales, and, after his death, of King Harold.
5 giorni fa · Alveva, widow of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, had held 5 carucates in Aylestone with 12 ploughs before the Conquest.
4 giorni fa · Before the Conquest WENDLEBURY was held by 'Asgar', who is to be identified with Esegar the staller, Sheriff of Middlesex, rather than with Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia. The Conqueror granted the village to Geoffrey de Mandeville, whose grandson of the same
3 giorni fa · Answer: Leofric, Earl of Mercia He was one of the most powerful men in England at the time. They had one son, Ælfgar.
6 giorni fa · The name Woden also appears as an ancestor of the royal genealogies of Kent, Wessex, East Anglia and Mercia, resulting in suggestions that after losing his status as a god during the Christianisation process he was euhemerised as a royal ancestor.
15 giu 2024 · According to the Abbot and convent of Evesham it had been granted to their house for the support of the monks by Earl Ælfgar with the consent of King Edward the Confessor, while the Worcester monks stated that it had belonged to them ever since the end of the 9th century, though they do not seem to have been quite certain whether ...
4 giorni fa · Aelfgar, a client of Aethelwine, gave Ramsey c. 3½ hides more at Burwell. (fn. 1) Abbot Aelfwine (1043-80) received from Aelfsige of Landwade and his wife Leva the reversion on their deaths of a Burwell estate which the abbot then gave for life to their kinsman Godwin to hold at farm.
