Eadric the Wild (or Eadric Silvaticus), also known as Wild Edric,[1]Eadric Cild (or Child[2]) and Edric the Forester,[3] was an Anglo-Saxon magnate of Shropshire and Herefordshire who led English resistance to the Norman Conquest, active in 1068–70.
^"Wild Edric". Shropshire History. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^Freeman, Edward Augustus (1867). The History of the Norman Conquest in England. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 64.
^Hume, David. History of England. Vol. 1. Boston: Aldine Book Publishing. pp. 182.
EadrictheWild (or Eadric Silvaticus), also known as Wild Edric, Eadric Cild (or Child) and Edric the Forester, was an Anglo-Saxon magnate of Shropshire...
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ealdorman of Mercia Eadric Cild, also known as EadrictheWild, (fl. 1068-70), Anglo-Saxon magnate who led English resistance to the Norman Conquest Wulfnoth...
"TheWild" is an epithet applied to: EadrictheWild (fl. 1068–1070), Anglo-Saxon magnate who led the resistance to the Norman Conquest John V, Count of...
thinking the noises were signs of a riot. Eadric's by-name "theWild" is relatively common, so despite suggestions that it arose from Eadric's participation...
former ally, Eustace, the Count of Boulogne, invaded at Dover but was repulsed. English resistance had also begun, with EadrictheWild attacking Hereford...
In 1067, the rulers of Gwynedd and Powys invaded England, in support of EadrictheWild, a leader of continued Saxon resistance against the Normans. When...
At the time of the Norman Conquest Clun formed part of the extensive lands of EadrictheWild, who led a revolt against King William I, whereon his lands...
anti-Norman revolts like that of EadrictheWild. Hence, in 1080, when a revolt broke out in Northern England, the Normans pre-emptively occupied Wales...
England, in the judgement of historian Rees Davies Wales was "utterly peripheral to their ambitions and concerns". Welsh support for EadrictheWild and Edwin...
Owain ab Edwin, Welsh prince, he fought against the Normans and supported the English magnate EadrictheWild in his conquest, was awarded lands in England...
the Conqueror following his conquest of England. In 1067, they joined the Mercian EadrictheWild in their struggle against William and attacked the Normans...
However, the exact site of this first castle, probably made of wood, is now unknown. Shortly before the castle was built the Saxon EadrictheWild had led...
fought alongside the Anglo-Saxons against the Norman Invasion. In 1067 they allied with the Mercian EadrictheWild in an attack on the Normans at Hereford...
north to counter the rebellion by EadrictheWild, while William the Conqueror's army travelled west; the two armies joined and won the Battle of Stafford...
faithfully serving Edward the Confessor "everywhere by water and by land". In August 1067, Rhiwallon and Bleddyn joined EadrictheWild in an attack upon Herefordshire...
Earl of Northumbria, along with Thurkil of Limis, EadrictheWild, and "Ealdred and Siward, the sons of Æthelgar, grandsons [or grand-nephews] (pronepotes)...
known as Ed Ayres. His full name is Eadric, taken from EadrictheWild, a resistance fighter in Shropshire after the Norman Conquest in 1066. He changed...
joined with the Mercian EadrictheWild in an attack on the Normans at Hereford Castle, and ravaged the Norman lands in Herefordshire along the River Lugg...
descent from EadrictheWild and are related to other Weld branches in several parts of the United Kingdom, from Willey, Shropshire, and the Lulworth Estate...
Hereford. He may have rebuilt the castle as it was in use in 1067 when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle noted that EadrictheWild harassed its garrison. In 1071...
connecting this to the river. Before the Norman invasion, the manor of Clun was owned by EadrictheWild. The area around Clun was rugged, thinly populated and...
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