eorlcundman

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English eorl-cund manna.

Noun

eorlcundman (plural eorlcundmen)

1. (historical) A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
   • 1848, Henry Hallam, Supplemental Notes to the View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, London: John Murray, pages 208–209:

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

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

     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.

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

     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;