gafolgelder
gafolgelder noun: an Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
Noun
gafolgelder (plural gafolgelders)
- An Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
- And if the services had stopped here, we might have concluded that the ‘ceorls’ of Hysseburne were gafolgelders, and not serfs.1883, Frederic Seebohm, “Manors and Serfdom under Saxon Rule”, in The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of...
- How many of these gafolgelders by contract were to be found on Saxon manors, whether on the lord’s demesne or holding virgates in the open fields, libere tenentes or free holders of villain holdings, as I have elsewhere stated we cannot tell, but if we may take the experience of the interval...1892 July, “Villainage in England”, in The English Historical Review, volume VII, number XXVII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; New York, N.Y.: […], page 460
Examples of gafolgelder in a sentence
- The position of gafolgelders is extended to English geburs, which in these cases appear as equivalent to ceorls[…]1905, Paul Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor, page 238:
- It is probable that the owners of folkland are most nearly represented, at the later part of this period, by the geneats and the gafolgelders.1923, W[illiam] S[earle] Holdsworth, A History of English Law, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 68:
Forms of gafolgelder
| plural | gafolgelders |
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Origin of gafolgelder
Learned borrowing from Old English gafolgyldere.
Questions about gafolgelder
- What does gafolgelder mean?
- Gafolgelder means an Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
- How do you use gafolgelder in a sentence?
- The position of gafolgelders is extended to English geburs, which in these cases appear as equivalent to ceorls[…]
- What part of speech is gafolgelder?
- Gafolgelder is a noun.
- What is the plural of gafolgelder?
- The plural of gafolgelder is gafolgelders.
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