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heregeld
heregeld Obs. exc. Hist. (ˈhɛrɪgɛld) Forms: 1 hereᵹield, -ᵹild, -ᵹyld, -ᵹeld, -ᵹeold, 7– heregeld, -gild. [OE. hęreᵹield, f. hęre host, the (Danish) army + ᵹield, ᵹyld, ᵹild payment, tribute, tax = OS. geld, OHG. gelt, ON. gjald, Goth. gild, tribute, payment. The OE. word did not survive into ME. It...
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Danegeld
Following Æthelred the kings of England used the same tax collection method to fund their own standing armies, this was known as heregeld (army-tax). Heregeld was abolished by Edward the Confessor in 1051. It was the Norman administration who called the tax Danegeld.
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hereyeld
† ˈhereyeld, herield Old Sc. Law. Forms: 6 hereȝeld, -ȝeild, (herreȝelda), herield, hyrald, -eild, 7 herrezeld(e, 9 herezeld, (erron. herizeld). [The same word as OE. hereᵹeld, heregeld, used in Scotland in sense of heriot.] The render to the superior of the best living animal of a deceased vassal; ...
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1050s in England
Heregeld is abolished in England by King Edward the Confessor.
1052
Prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn of Wales raids Herefordshire.
14 September – Godwin
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1010s in England
Heregeld tax is introduced to pay Anglo-Scandinavian mercenaries to fight the Danes. Cnut levies £10,500 to pay heregeld.
1019
Exeter monastery restored by Cnut.
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here
▪ I. † here, n. Obs. Forms: 1–5 here, 3 hære, 4 her, 4–5 heere. [Com. Teut.: OE. hęre masc., gen. hęrᵹes, hęriᵹes, hęres = OFris. here, hiri, OS. heri m. and n. (MDu. hēre, Du. heir, heer n., LG. hêr n.), OHG. hari, hęri (MLG. here, Ger. heer) n., ON. hęrr m., gen. hęrjar (Sw. här, Da. hær), Goth. h...
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Thingmen
expedient by Æthelred to raise individual lump sums of Danegeld, became a regular annual form of levy to support this standing force, a payment now known as heregeld In that year 9 of these were dismissed and in 1051 the remaining force was disbanded and the heregeld was abolished.
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Taxation in medieval England
The year 1012 saw the introduction of the geld or heregeld (literally "army tax"), an annual tax first assessed by King Æthelred the Unready to pay for However, heregeld was possibly reinstated in 1052.
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Government in Anglo-Saxon England
The heregeld paid soldiers and sailors. The heregeld was abolished in 1049 by Edward the Confessor, who placed responsibility for naval defense on the Cinque Ports in return for special privileges
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