eorlcundman

plural eorlcundmen

1. historicalA kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.

   The eorlcundman was generally, though not necessarily, a freeholder;

   1848, Henry Hallam, Supplemental Notes to the View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, London: John Murray, pages 208–209

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   The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.

   1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press

   And so, to Inisfallen and Cashel came the sons of the kings and sub-kings of Munster; and the sons of the privileged, although not royal, classes of airigh – the flatha, owners of landed property and counterparts of the eorls or eorlcundmen of later Anglo-Saxon times;

   1983, Roger Chatterton Newman, Brian Boru, King of Ireland, Anvil Books, →ISBN, page 60