AUTHORIT1ES  .—Primary : The Saxon

Chronicle, sub ann . ; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum, i . 141-137, Rolls Series, containing valuable on inal information (v . Stubbs' Introduction, II. lx.-lxvii.); Birch, Cartul . Saxon. vol. ii . Nos . 641-747; A.S . Laws, (ed . Liebermann), i . 146-183; iEthelweard, Florence of Worcester . Secondary: Saxon Chronicle (ed . Plummer), vol. ii. pp .

132-142; D.N.B., s.v . (A . Mw.) 1ETHELWEARD (ETIIELWARD), Anglo-Saxon historian, was the

great-grandson of /Ethelred, the brother of Alfred, and ealdorman or earl of the western provinces (i.e. probably of the whole of Wessex) . He first signs as dux or ealdorman in 973, and continues to sign until 998, about which time his death must have taken place . In the year 991 he was associated with archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a peace with the victorious Danes from Maldon, and in g94 he was sent with Bishop IElfheah (Alphege) of Winchester to make peace with Olaf at Andover . JEthelweard was the author of a Latin Chronicle extending to the year 975 . Up to the year 892 he is largely dependent on the Saxon Chronicle, with a few details of his own; later he is largely independent of it . /Ethelweard gave himself the bombastic title " Patricius Consul Quaestor Ethelwerdus," and unfortunately this title is only too characteristic of the man . His narrative is highly rhetorical, and as he at the same time attempts more than Tacitean brevity his narrative is often very obscure . AEthelweard was the friend and patron of /Elfric the grammarian . Cartularium Saxonicum; A.S . Laws (ed .

Liebermann), pp . 220-224; Fabii Ethelwerdi Chron., Mon . Hist . Brit . 449-454 . Secondary: Plummer, Saxon Chronicle, vol. ii. p. ci.;

Napier and Stevenson, Crawford Charters, pp . 118-120; D.N.B., s.v . (A .