Eadric Streona [SEP] position held
Eadric Streona
Eadric Streona (died 1017) was Ealdorman of Mercia from 1007 to 1017. Eadric was given the epithet "Streona" (translated as "The Acquisitive”) in Hemming's Cartulary because he appropriated church land and funds for himself. Eadric became infamous in the medieval age because of his traitorous actions during the Danish re-conquest of England.
Eadric was one of at least eight children and had relatively humble beginnings: his father Ethelric attended the court of King Ethelred the Unready, but was of no
's head was "placed upon a pole on the highest battlement of the tower of London". Eadric is not known to have had any children. His position was at some point filled by Leofric, the brother of Eadric's knight Northman, the family of whom held Mercia until after the Norman conquest.
In culture.
In 2005, Streona was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 11th century's worst Briton. He features as the central villain in the anonymous play "Edmund Ironside", now part