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AUTHORIT1ES .—Primary : The Saxon See also:

Chronicle, sub See also:ann. ; See also:William of See also:Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, i. 141-137, Rolls See also:Series, containing valuable on inal See also:information (v. See also:Stubbs' Introduction, II. lx.-lxvii.); See also:Birch, Cartul. Saxon. vol. ii. Nos. 641-747; A.S. See also:Laws, (ed. See also:Liebermann), i. 146-183; iEthelweard, See also:Florence of See also:Worcester. Secondary: Saxon Chronicle (ed. Plummer), vol. ii. pp.

132-142; D.N.B., s.v. (A. Mw.) 1ETHELWEARD (ETIIELWARD), Anglo-Saxon historian, was the See also:

great-See also:grandson of /See also:Ethelred, the See also:brother of See also:Alfred, and ealdorman or See also:earl of the western provinces (i.e. probably of the whole of Wessex). He first signs as See also:dux or ealdorman in 973, and continues to sign until 998, about which See also:time his See also:death must have taken See also:place. In the See also:year 991 he was associated with See also:archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a See also:peace with the victorious Danes from See also:Maldon, and in g94 he was sent with See also:Bishop IElfheah (See also:Alphege) of See also:Winchester to make peace with See also:Olaf at See also:Andover. JEthelweard was the author of a Latin Chronicle extending to the year 975. Up to the year 892 he is largely dependent on the Saxon Chronicle, with a few details of his own; later he is largely See also:independent of it. /Ethelweard gave himself the bombastic See also:title " Patricius See also:Consul See also:Quaestor Ethelwerdus," and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the See also:man. His narrative is highly rhetorical, and as he at the same time attempts more than Tacitean brevity his narrative is often very obscure. AEthelweard was the friend and See also:patron of /Elfric the grammarian. Cartularium Saxonicum; A.S. Laws (ed.

Liebermann), pp. 220-224; Fabii Ethelwerdi Chron., Mon. Hist. Brit. 449-454. Secondary: Plummer, Saxon Chronicle, vol. ii. p. ci.; See also:

Napier and See also:Stevenson, See also:Crawford Charters, pp. 118-120; D.N.B., s.v. (A.

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