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"Earl" was a title created by Cnut who organised the ealdormanries (is that a proper word?) into the earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, York, Northumberland and Kent after 1015. Prior to that Eadric Streona had been Ealdorman of Mercia. Before him it was vacant and before that it was held by Aethelric, so it is difficult to see how Leofwine could have been Earl of Mercia at all. After Eadric Streona's death, Leofric became Earl of Mercia.
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I have not been able to find anything supporting the claims here about Leofwine's parentage. Unless someone can come up with references linking Leofwine to either parent, I'd rather see that part deleted.
Havard20:38, 12 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Excellent work by Angusmclellan on clearing out that part. Can we also remove the "Earl of Mercia" part? As mentioned he seems to have been referred to as an ealdorman of Hwicce, but never as anything "of Mercia", and certainly not earl. I haven't been able to look into this in detail, but it would seem that Mercia consisted of several ealdormanries before Canute, and the uniting of the entire area under one earl was something done in the early 11th century?
Havard11:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)reply