280:. It adds that Northman had been killed by Cnut for this reason. Despite the murder of Northman, his father Leofwine continued in his office until 1023, under the overlordship of the newly implanted Earl Hákon, and Northman's brother Leofric eventually became Earl of Mercia.
203:, that is Ironside, were frequently deceived, and he ordered his body to be thrown over the city wall, and left unburied. Ealdorman Northman, son of Ealdorman Leofwine, that is brother of Leofric the Ealdorman (
245:. And in this year Ealdorman Eadric was killed, and Northman, son of Ealdorman Leofwine, and Æthelweard, son of Æthelmær the Stout, and Brihtric, son of Ælfheah of Devonshire. And King Cnut exiled the atheling
113:
Accurately tracing
Northman within the witness-lists of charters is difficult because of the contested authenticity of many of these charters, and because there was another magnate of that name,
97:, Eadwine (died 1039), and Godwine (died 1055). Ealdorman Leofwine's father was a man named Ælfwine. Ælfwine is difficult to identify, but was possibly the Ælfwine killed at the
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199:) to be killed in the palace because he feared that some day he would be entrapped by Eadric's treachery, just as Eadric's former lords Æthelred and
573:, The Northern World. North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 A.D.: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, volume 40, Leiden: Brill,
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625:, ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies, 5, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies, University of Cambridge,
207:), and Brihtric, son of Ælfheah, governor of Devon, were killed with him, although blameless. The king made Leofric ealdorman (
237:
In this year King Cnut succeeded to all the kingdom of
England and divided it into four, Wessex for himself, East Anglia for
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Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century
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was compiled between 1124 and 1140, but is derived from earlier sources, including a lost northern version of the
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191:, that is Emma, Æthelred's widow, and at Christmas, when he was at London, ordered the treacherous Ealdorman
164:, which in the 1050s was one of the abbeys controlled by Northman's kinsman, Abbot Leofric of Peterborough.
183:
Accounts of his death form the main sources of information about
Northman. John of Worcester related that:
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Northman was the eldest of four known sons of
Ealdorman Leofwine. The others were Leofric, later
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during Cnut's reign. Northman is believed to have been an associate of the troublesome ealdorman
44:
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272:, the reliability of which is doubted by some historians, says that Northman was a retainer of
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225:, and likely saga material about Eadric Streona. The account in the surviving versions of the
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Northman's last non-chronicle appearance is a subscription to a lease given by
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Northmannus filius Leofuuini ducis, frater scilicet Leofrici comitis
86:("count" or "ealdorman"). No other source claims that Northman was an
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79:("duke", "ealdorman" or "warlord"). He is described as a brother of
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Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c. 670–1066
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England
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also noted
Northman's death. It described him as a "powerful man" (
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noble of the early 11th century. A member of a powerful
Mercian
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Keynes, Simon (2004). "Eadric Streona (d. 1017), magnate".
27:(clan), he is known primarily for receiving the village of
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90:, and so the authenticity of this account is in doubt.
749:(2004). "Leofric, earl of Mercia (d. 1057), magnate".
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141:); this charter is however regarded as spurious.
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160:. This charter was preserved in the archives of
63:In the account of Northman's death by order of
148:("Northman the knight"), to whom in 1013 King
763:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
661:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
39:in 1013, and for his death by order of King
105:, ealdorman of Mercia between 983 and 985.
524:, pp. 29–30, and n. 45 for reference
144:It is likely that Northman is the same as
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55:, who was killed with him.
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175:, to his brother Ælfwig.
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551:Baxter, Stephen (2007),
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786:required.)
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426:Sawyer 931
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378:Northman 2
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