Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia
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**[http://books.google.com/books?id=gpR0iz5GjYgC&pg=RA1-PA486&vq=godiva#PRA1-PA157,M1 Page 157 (continues to page 158)] : "[A.D. 1055] (cont.) ...earl Algar entered Hereford and having slain seven of the canons....brave earl Harold...unwearied in his pursuit of Griffyth and Algar....Meanwhile...Griffyth, Algar, and Harold...met...and peace being proposed and accepted....earl Algar...went to court and was restored by the king to his earldom." | **[http://books.google.com/books?id=gpR0iz5GjYgC&pg=RA1-PA486&vq=godiva#PRA1-PA157,M1 Page 157 (continues to page 158)] : "[A.D. 1055] (cont.) ...earl Algar entered Hereford and having slain seven of the canons....brave earl Harold...unwearied in his pursuit of Griffyth and Algar....Meanwhile...Griffyth, Algar, and Harold...met...and peace being proposed and accepted....earl Algar...went to court and was restored by the king to his earldom." | ||
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=gpR0iz5GjYgC&pg=RA1-PA159&vq=godiva Page 159] : "[A.D. 1057] ...The renowned Leofric, son of the ealdorman Leofwine, of blessed memory, died in a good old age, at his own vill of Bromley, on the second of the calends of September [31st August], and was buried with great pomp at Coventry; which monastery, among the other good deeds of his life, he and his wife, the noble countess Godiva, a worshipper of God, and devoted friend of St. Mary, Ever-a-Virgin, had founded, and amply endowing it with lands on their own patrimony, had so enriched with all kinds of ornament, that no monastery could be found in England possessed of such abundance of gold....His son Algar was appointed to his earldom. | **[http://books.google.com/books?id=gpR0iz5GjYgC&pg=RA1-PA159&vq=godiva Page 159] : "[A.D. 1057] ...The renowned Leofric, son of the ealdorman Leofwine, of blessed memory, died in a good old age, at his own vill of Bromley, on the second of the calends of September [31st August], and was buried with great pomp at Coventry; which monastery, among the other good deeds of his life, he and his wife, the noble countess Godiva, a worshipper of God, and devoted friend of St. Mary, Ever-a-Virgin, had founded, and amply endowing it with lands on their own patrimony, had so enriched with all kinds of ornament, that no monastery could be found in England possessed of such abundance of gold....His son Algar was appointed to his earldom. | ||
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| + | *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, G.N. Garmonsway (tr,ed). J.M.Dent Ltd, London 1972 (reprint 1992) | ||
| + | **pg 177 : "The Laud Chronicle (E) — 1048 [1051] "And then Odda was appointed earl over Devon, and over Somerset, and over Dorset, and over Cornwall; and Aelfgar, earl Leofric's son, was given the earldom which Harold had had." | ||
| + | **pg 184 : "The Abingdon Chronicle (C) — 1055 "A short time after this there was a council in London, and earl Aelfgar, son of earl Leofric, was outlawed without having done anything to deserve his fate. Thereupon he went to Ireland, and added a force of eighteen ships to his own household troops, and sailed to king Gruffydd with that host; and he took him under his protection." | ||
| + | **pg 188 : "The Laud Chronicle (E) — 1057 "Earl Leofric passed away, and Aelfgar, his son, succeeded to the earldom which his father had had." | ||
==Secondary sources== | ==Secondary sources== | ||
