NOUN
- king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)
How To Use Edward the Elder In A Sentence
- The same is true for the fyrds led by Edward the Elder in the conquest of the midlands.
- The first step was to divide the shires into hundreds (in Danish areas, the term wapentake was used), a reorganisation which probably occurred during the reigns of Edward the Elder and Athelstan.
- In the early 920s Edward the Elder recovered the town, and built fortifications and a connecting bridge.
- Edward the Elder decreed that the hundred courts were to judge the worthiness of every law-suit and to appoint a day for it to be heard and settled.
