Æthelmær the Stout

Anglo-Saxon ealdorman

d. 1015

Æthelmær the Stout or Æthelmær the Fat a leading thegn from the 980s, discðegn to King Æthelred the Unready, and briefly ealdorman of the Western Provinces in 1013. He was the founder of Cerne Abbey and Eynsham Abbey, and a patron of the leading scholar, Ælfric of Eynsham. He was the son of Æthelweard the historian, and descended from King Æthelred I.

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