Eadric

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *Audarīk, from Proto-Germanic *Audarīks, from *audaz (“happiness, prosperity”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”). Cognate of Old High German Ōtrih and Old Norse Auðríkr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ͜ɑːdˌriːk/

Proper noun

Ēadrīc m

1. a male given name
2. Eadric the Wild; an 11th Century Anglo-Saxon Thegn.
3. Eadric of Kent; an Anglo-Saxon King of Kent.
   • Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric

     Þis syndon þā dōmas ðe Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, asetton. Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, ēcton þā ǣ, þā ðe heora aldoras ǣr ġeworhten, ðyssum dōmum þe hȳr efter sæġeþ.

     These are the laws that Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, laid down. Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, added these laws listed hereafter to the laws their ancestors created.

Descendants

• English: Edrick, Edric

References

• Electronic Sawyer S 1506 (Agreement between Æthelweard and Archbishop Oda and the Christ Church community over land at Ickham, Kent), a man named Eadric is mentioned as "Eadric".