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adelingus

adelingus [AS æþeling] , prince. Henricus ‥ [Mathildem] desponsavit, ex qua Guillelmum Adelinum ‥ genuit Ord. Vit. VIII 22 (cf. ib. XII 18: Guillelmus Adelingus); Eadgarum ‥ Eadwardus ‥, quia heredem putabat eum facere, nominavit aþeling, quod nos dicimus domicellum; sed nos de pluribus, quia filios baronum vocamus domicellos, Angli autem nullum preter filios regum ‥ in quadam parte Saxoniae ling ymago dicebatur, aþel Anglice nobilis, quod conjunctum a þeling, id est nobilis imago, dicitur (Leg. Ed.) GAS 665; Margareta ‥ cum fratre Eadgaro edelingo (Leg. Ed. retr.) Ib. 664; Edwardus filius Edmundi Irenside ‥ fuit pater Edgari Atheling H. Hunt. HA VI 24; communiter Adelingi vocantur qui de regis sanguine descendunt Higd. I 27 (cf. ib. VI 18).

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