Lyfing was taken captive by Vikings and held prisoner for a time, but he was released in time to attend the Witenagemot in 1014, and he started repairs of the damage the Vikings had done to Canterbury Cathedral.
32.
Monasteries and Cheddar, which was used at times in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot, and there is likely to have been a " central place " at Somerton, Bath, Glastonbury and Frome since the kings visited them.
33.
The first recorded act of a witenagemot was the law code issued by King �thelberht of Kent ca . 600, the earliest document which survives in sustained Old English prose; however, the witan was certainly in existence long before this time.
34.
The Knickerbocker Mansion grounds were the location of the Witenagemot Oak, planted in 1676 to commemorate the signing of a treaty between New York governor Edmund Andros and the local Mahican people and native refugees from King Phillip's War.
35.
During the Saxon period, it was used on three occasions in the 10th century to host the Witenagemot, an assembly of powerful figures, in 941, 956 and 968, Several expansions of the site took place between the Saxon and medieval eras.
36.
Princeton Orientalist Bernard Lewis has pointed out that in Islamic societies, before the introduction of Western institutions, there was no equivalent of any of the parliaments and assemblies such as the Roman Senate, Jewish Sanhedrin or Anglo-Saxon witenagemot that flourished in Christendom.
37.
It is also recorded that an England-wide Royal Council ( " Witenagemot " ) took place in Sussex on 3 April 930, when �thelstan, the first king of the English, and his councillors gathered at Lyminster by the River Arun.
38.
William expected to receive the submission of the surviving English leaders after his victory, but instead Edgar the �theling was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot, with the support of Earls Edwin and Morcar, Stigand, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ealdred, the Archbishop of York.
39.
The Anglo-Saxon " folkmoot " or " folkmote " ( Old English " folk meeting ", modern Norwegian; " folkem�te " ) was analogous, the forerunner to the witenagemot and a precursor of the modern Parliament of the United Kingdom.
40.
After his victory at Hastings, William expected to receive the submission of the surviving English leaders, but instead Edgar the �theling was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot, with the support of Earls Edwin and Morcar, Stigand, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ealdred, the Archbishop of York.
