Eadnoth de Mercia

• Preferred Name: Eadnoth de Mercia^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: ABT 1067 in England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.4379 LONG: E1.6496 with note: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft/page/310/mode/1up
  
• Occupation: Master of the Horse with note: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft/page/310/mode/1up
  
• FSID: 9M9F-MJT
  
• Birth: ABT 1035 in Bristol, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.454 LONG: E2.592 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Eadnoth was Master of the Horse under 3 kings of England: Edward the Confessor, Harold II and William the Conqueror.
  Eadnoth became a landowner under King Harold II. He died in 1067 defending that land against the invasion of Harold's son.
  
  Eadnoth is known to have left a son Harding.
  
  https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft/page/310/mode/1up

1. Estmond de Mercia, b. ABT 1067 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England     d. ABT 1142 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England

1. Title: Eadnoth -Dictionary of National Biography Volume 16 (1888 edition)
   Author: Dictionary of national biography by Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904 Publication date 1885-1900 Topics Great Britain -- Biography Publisher New York Macmillan Collection robarts; toronto Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English Volume 16
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati16stepuoft/page/310/mode/1up;
   Note: Pages 310-311 EADNOTH (d. 1067), staller, or master of the horse, under Eadward the Confessor (KEMBLE, Codex Dipl. 845), Harold (FLOE. WIG. ii. 3), and William the Conqueror (A.-S. Chron., sub ann. 1067), appears to have held large estates, especially in the west country, and in one case to have taken ad- vantage of Harold's favour to gain land at the expense of the church, and in another probably of the favour of the conqueror to do so at the expense of a private landowner (Norman Conquest, ii. 548, iv. 758). When Harold's sons invaded England in 1067 with a Danish fleet from Ireland, and, after hav- ing been beaten off from Bristol by the burghers, ravaged the coast of Somerset, Eadnoth met them with a local force and fought a battle with them, in which, accord- ing to Florence of Worcester, the invaders gained the victory, while William of Malmes- bury says that they were defeated, and it may be inferred from the ' Chronicle ' that the issue was doubtful. Eadnoth was slain, and ' many good men on both sides ' (A.-S. Chron.} Eadnoth left a son named Harding, who was alive when William of Malmesbury wrote. There is no reason to doubt that he was the father of Robert FitzHarding, the founder of the second and present house of the lords of Berkeley [see BEEKELEY. family of]. [Anglo-Saxon Chron. sub ami. 1067 ; Florence of Worcester, ii. 3 (Engl. Hist. Soc.) ; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, ii. 429 (Engl. Hist. Soc.) ; Kemble's Codex Dipl. 845 ; Freeman's Norman Conquest, ii. 548, iv. 227, and Note S. 757-61, which contains all that can be made out on the subject of Eadnoth's lands.] W. H.