gesithcundman

plural gesithcundmen

1. A gesith.

   The penalty of the adultery of the gesithcundman goes to his lord, ‘according to ancient usage.’

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

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   The gesiths, gesithmen, or gesithcundmen, were the military companions or followers of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs and Kings.

   1830, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 149

   Now, if we might regard the gesithcundman as one of a class to whom ten hides or twenty hides had been allotted by King Ine on a system providing in this practical way inter alia for the night’s entertainments, it would be natural that the food rent of the unit of ten hides should be fixed.

   1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law