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Source Title Laws of King Æthelred
Date of composition 979 x 1016
Language Old English

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Go to The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Attenborough, F.L. The Laws of the Earliest English Kings Cambridge 1922  

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Event Æthelred.Laws    This is the ordinance which King Æthelred 32 and his councillors have enacted at Woodstock in Mercia, for the promotion of public security, wherever English law prevails.
Event Æthelred.Laws    These are the terms of the truce and the agreement which King Æthelred 32 and all his councillors have made with the fleet led by Olaf 5 [Anlaf] and Justin 1 [Iustin] and Guthmund 3 the son of Stegita 1. In the first place, a general truce shall be established between King Æthelred 32 and all his subjects and the whole fleet to which the king has paid tribute, in accordance with the terms which Archbishop Sigeric 9 and Ealdorman Æthelweard 2 and Ealdorman Ælfric 87 made, when they obtained the king's permission to purchase peace for the districts which subject to him, they ruled over.
Event Æthelred.Laws    These are the constitutions which King Æthelred 32 and his councillors have enacted at Wantage for the promotion of public security.
Event Æthelred.Laws    This is the ordinance which has been determined upon and enacted by the king of England [Æthelred 32] and his councillors, both ecclesiastic and lay.
Event Æthelred.Laws    These are the ordinances which the councillors of England have decided and agreed upon, earnestly enjoining that they should be observed.
Event Æthelred.Laws    This is the edict which was drawn up by King Æthelred and his councillors at Bath.
Event Æthelred.Laws    In the year 1014 after the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is one of the ordinances which the English king drew up with the advice of his councillors. But let us do what the secular authorities of old wisely decreed - Æthelstan 18 and Edmund 14 and Edgar 11, who came last - how they honoured God and kept his law and rendered tribute to him, as long as they lived.
Event Æthelred.Laws    This is the ordinance which King Æthelred 32 and all his councillors have determined upon at Woodstock.
Event Æthelred.Laws    … I, King Æthelred 32, have been considering first of all how I could best promote Christianity and the just interests of the royal authority, and how, in affairs both religious and secular, I could determine with the greatest profit to myself, and ordain most justly, for the advantage of all my subjects, the conditions which we ought to observe. And this is the ordinance which we desire to observe in accordance with what we have firmly decreed at Enham.
Office Æthelred.Laws    Æthelred 32 held office of King
Office Æthelred.Laws    Æthelred 32 held office of King (king of the English)
Office Æthelred.Laws    Sigeric 9 held office of Archbishop
Office Æthelred.Laws    Æthelweard 2 held office of Ealdorman
Office Æthelred.Laws    Ælfric 87 held office of Ealdorman
Personal Relationship Æthelred.Laws    Guthmund 3 was Son of Stegita 1
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws  I Æthelred 32 (Æthelred)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Æthelred 32 (Æþelredus)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Olaf 5 (Anlaf)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Justin 1 (Iustin)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Stegita 1 (Stegita)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Sigeric 9 (Sigeric)
RecordedNames Æthelred.Laws    Guthmund 3 (Guðmund)