Note 238 — Chapter XXV · EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. (1042–1066.)
Reading edition
Sco ealde Hlaefdige is the term used in the Chronicle to describe the queen-dowager. It will be remembered that there was in Wessex a peculiar distaste to the title “Queen”.
Reading edition
Sco ealde Hlaefdige is the term used in the Chronicle to describe the queen-dowager. It will be remembered that there was in Wessex a peculiar distaste to the title “Queen”.