Dux. Flor. 982. Ælfríc 983, 985, 992, 993. Dux. Flor. 983. Birhtnóð 991. Dux. Flor. 991. Æðelwine 992. Dux. Flor. 992. Æðelweard 994. Dux. Flor. 994. Leófsige 1002. Dux. Flor. 1002. Ælfhelm 1006. Dux. Flor. 1006. Eádríc 1007, 1009, 1012, 1015, 1016. Dux. Flor. in an. Æðelmǽr ealdorman 1013. Comes. Flor. 1013. Ælfríc 1016. Dux. Flor. 1016. Godwine 1016. Dux. Flor. 1016. Æðelwine 1016. Dux. Flor. 1016. The same thing is observable in the charters: thus Óswulf Aldormon, Cod. Dipl. No. 226, but “Dux et princeps Orientalis Canciae,” No. 256. Again the nobleman who in the body of the charter No. 219 is called Eádwulf ealdorman, signs himself among the witnesses, Eádwulf Dux. ----- The word _ealdor_ or _aldor_ in Anglosaxon denotes princely dignity without any definition of function whatever. In Beówulf it is used as a synonym for cyning, þeóden and other words applied to royal personages. Like many other titles of rank in the various Teutonic tongues, it is derived from an adjective implying age, though practically this idea does not by any means survive in it, any more than it does in the word Senior, the origin of the feudal term Seigneur[305]; and similarly the words “ða yldestan witan,” literally the eldest councillors, are used to express merely the most dignified[306]. ----- Footnote 305: The Roman _Senatus_, the Greek γερουσία, the ecclesiastical πρεσβύτεροι are all examples of a like usage. Footnote 306: Chron. Sax. an. 978. -----