Brihtric

Role: brother of Alderman Edric · First appears: A.D. 1006–1010

Life events

• 1009 · Brihtric betrayed Wulnoth to the king, and Wulnoth went into exile.(A.D. 1006–1010)
  • With: Wulnoth
  • “Brihtric, brother of Alderman Edric, bewrayed Wulnoth, the South-Saxon knight, father of Earl Godwin, to the king; and he went into exile”
• 1009 · Wulnoth burned the ships Brihtric had taken against him.(A.D. 1006–1010)
  • With: Wulnoth
  • “whereupon Wulnoth soon came, and burned them.”

A.D. 1006–1010

• siblings with Alderman Edric (The text identifies Brihtric as Edric's brother.) “It was at this same time, or a little earlier, that Brihtric, brother of Alderman Edric, bewrayed Wulnoth, the South-Saxon knight, father of Earl Godwin, to the king;”
• enemies with Wulnoth “But, whilst they were proceeding thitherward, there came such a wind against them, as no man remembered before; which beat and tossed the ships, and drove them aground; whereupon Wulnoth soon came, and burned them.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.