witenagemot in a sentence

Examples

1. Upon the death of Edward the Confessor in January 1066, the " Witenagemot " convened and chose Harold to succeed; he was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
2. The councils had the character not only of a church synod but of the Witenagemot, an assembly of the ruling class whose primary function was to advise the king.
3. Another " Witenagemot " took place in Sussex in the reign of �thelstan ( 924-939 ), probably at Hamsey, on the River Ouse near Lewes.
4. The Witan, also called Witenagemot, was the council of kings; its essential duty was to advise the king on all matters on which he chose to ask its opinion.
5. Andover's first mention in history is in 950 when King Edgar called a meeting of the Saxon'parliament'( the Witenagemot ) at his hunting lodge near Andover.
6. The Witan, Witenagemot or Council of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of the 7th to 11th centuries was held from time to time at Runnymede during the reign of Alfred the Great.
7. Between 991 and 993, �lfric rose to the Bishopric of Ramsbury, and possibly continued to hold office of abbot of St Albans while bishop . at a witenagemot held at Amesbury.
8. The witenagemot was in many ways different from the future Parliament, it had substantially different powers and some major limitations, such as a lack of a fixed procedure, schedule, or meeting place.
9. However, in a sign of the witenagemot's enduring legacy, the " curia regis " continued to be dubbed a " witan " by chroniclers until as late as the 12th century.
10. When the Witenagemot convened the next day they selected Harold to succeed, and his coronation followed on 6 January, most likely held in Westminster Abbey; though no evidence from the time survives to confirm this.