AETHELWEARD or ETHELWARD, his torian, was the great-grandson of Aethelred, the brother of Al fred, and ealdorman or earl of the western provinces (i.e., prob ably of the whole of Wessex). He 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. He was the friend and patron of Aelfric, the grammarian.
: The Saxon Chronicle, 994 E ; Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum; A. S. Laws (ed. Liebermann), pp. 220-24; Fabii Ethelwerdi Chron., Mon. Hist. Brit., pp. Secondary: Plummer, Saxon Chronicle, vol. ii. p. ci. ; Napier and Stevenson, Crawford Charters, pp. 118-2o; D.N.B., s.v.