Alderman Elfric
Role: alderman · First appears: A.D. 999–1005
Life events
- 1003 · Alderman Elfric feigned sickness and betrayed the people he was to lead against the enemy.(A.D. 999–1005 · 📍 Wiltshire)
- “then he pretended sickness, and began to retch, saying he was sick; and so betrayed the people that he should have led”
A.D. 999–1005
- lord / consecrator: King Ethelred “Then was collected a very great force, from Wiltshire and from Hampshire; which was soon ready on their march against the enemy: and Alderman Elfric should have led them on; but he brought forth his old tricks, and as soon as they were so near, that either army looked on the other, then he pretended sickness, and began to retch, saying he was sick; and so betrayed the people that he should have led: as it is said, ”
A.D. 1015–1018
- enemies with King Knute “There was then slain Bishop Ednoth, and Abbot Wulsy, and Alderman Elfric, and Alderman Godwin of Lindsey, and Ulfkytel of East-Anglia, and Ethelward, the son of Alderman Ethelsy.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.