WITAN ANGELCYNNES

GE GEHADODE GE LÆWEDE

A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE

ECCLESIASTICAL AND SECULAR ORDERS

IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

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It is proposed to compile and maintain a biographical register of the great and the good in Anglo-Saxon England, supplying references to their occurrences in documentary and other records, some discussion of their family connections and landed interests, and citation of published accounts of each person. The format of the register has yet to be decided; sample entries will be devised when the opportunity allows, and placed here for comment and improvement.

References

Cannon, J., ed., The Oxford Companion to British History (Oxford, 1997)
Fletcher, R., Who's Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England (London, 1989)
Harmer, F. E., Anglo-Saxon Writs (Manchester, 1952)
Hart, C. R., The Early Charters of Northern England (Leicester, 1975)
Hart, C., The Danelaw (London, 1992)
Keynes, S., 'Cnut's Earls', The Reign of Cnut, ed. A. R. Rumble (London, 1994), pp. 43-88
Lapidge, M., et al., ed., The Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, forthcoming)
Napier, A. S., and W. H. Stevenson, ed., The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents (Oxford, 1895)
Robertson, A. J., ed., Anglo-Saxon Charters, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1956)
Whitelock, D., ed., Anglo-Saxon Wills (Cambridge, 1930)
Williams, A., A. P. Smyth, and D. P. Kirby, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales, c. 500-c.1050 (London, 1991)

Alphabetical lists

Kings, queens, and members of royal families

Archbishops, bishops, abbots, and other ecclesiastics

Ealdormen, thegns, and other laymen