Eadnoth
The Staller
formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in Bristol, Somerset, England
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Harding FitzEadnoth and Estmond (FitzEadnoth) of Mercia
Died
at about age 38
in Bleadon, Somerset, England
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Dec 2015
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Biography
"Alnod [Ealdnoth], the Staller, or Horse Thane, under King Edward the Confessor, and afterwards under King Harold and the Conqueror. Slain in the autumn of 1068 at the head of the men of Somerset, in an engagement with the sons of Harold when devasting the seaboard of that shire, after their repulse at Bristol. [1]
"William of Malmsbury in recording the death of Ealdnoth, the staller, adds that 'he was the father of Harding, who yet survives..."[2]
Research Notes
- Detached parents Gyda Anundsdottir and Svend Estridsn due to lack of proof that those were his parents.[3]
- Ulf Thorgilsson and Estrid Margarete Svensdottir have also been atached as parents as some point but there are no sources for this either.[3]
Sources
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190606025334/http://www.battleofnortham.co.uk:80/learn/countdown-to-battle/
- ↑ John Smyth, The Lives of the Berkeleys (1883), vol. 1, p. 26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lena Svensson Jan 27, 2017
- Wickwire, Arthur Manley. Genealogy of the Wickware Family (Curtiss-Way Co., New York and Meriden, 1909) Page 20
- Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Gloucester, England, 1878) Vol. 4, Page 197
- Smyth, John. The Berkeley Manuscripts (J. Bellows, Gloucester, 1883) Vol. 1, Page 26
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Categories: Anglo-Saxon Survivors | Anglo-Saxon Britain
He is known to have just the one son, Harding who in turn was the father of two sons. Nicholas, the patriarch of the Meriet family of Somerset, whereas his younger son Robert was to inherit his father's lands centered in and around Bristol and was to become the patriarch of the Berkeley family. The Meriets were never to acquire the wealth or status of the Berkeleys.
Robert fitzHarding provided the necessary financial support for Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the Angevins in their attempt to oust Stephen as king, and was duly rewarded by Henry II with the honour and castle of Berkeley for his heir and the marriage of a daughter of Roger III de Berkeley, from whom the honour had been confiscated for his continued support of Stephen.
It was also Robert fitzHarding that Dermont, the deposed king of Leinster, Ireland, approached for financial backing and the advice in the hire of mercenaries to recover his kingdom.
Robert died in 1171 and was buried at St Augustine's, Bristol, a priory that he founded. His widow Eva, was to found the nunnery of St Mary's and became its first prioress, but buried alongside her husband when she died two years later.
edited by [Living O'Brien]
Last name cannot be Denmark. It's unknown, so it should be Unknown.
What evidence is there for his son Estmond, notionally of (the royal family of) Mercia? This is almost as bad as saying this guy is of (the royal family of) Denmark. Mercia doesn't even exist in this era, as a place one can be Of... does it?
Harding exists. And Eadnoth exists. I'm not sure we know anything else.
Also will some one correct where he died please which was Bleadon in 1068