It was the custom of Saxon royal families that a king's sons should begin to share their father's duties as soon as they were capable of doing so, and Edward the Elder was commanding armies in battle and signing charters as "Rex" some time before Alfred's death in 899. It is harldy surprising, then, to find him extending the pattern of Alfred's work by pushing back further the Danish power and consolidating the structure of Saxon rule. But the chroniclers who described his achievementsk make it plain that much of the credit must go to Edward's older sister Aethelflaed, who was married to the ruler of Mercia and seems to have governedd that kingdom in her own right after her husband died in 910. Evidently a forceful, even a formidable woman, "the lday of Mercia" campaigned on equal terms with her brother, and between them they inflicted a series of crushing defeats on the Danish settler of Midlands and East Anglia.
Aethelflaed died in 917, almost at the moment when the Danes of the Midlands made theirdk final submission. Edward, who has been described as a "formidable engine of war, a sort of infalliable military machine which gets through its task with admirable accuracy, if not always with great speed", went on to extract oaths from the eastern and northern Danes as well.
The towns of Mercia were systematically fortified to provide stability in defence, as Algred had first taught in Wessex. Edward was probably also responsible for a new division of territories on a military basis which survive until recently, almost unaltered, in the county map of Midland England.
Like his father,, Edward seems to have been more tha just a soldier and administrator. He "used books frequently", and his reign is notable for the bveauty and originality of its coinage in which he appears to have taken a direct interest. One of his portrait coins, in particular, is regarded as the finest thing to have been produced by an English mint until the reign of Edward I.
Daughter of Ludolph, Duke of Saxony.
Countess of Orleans Hermintrudis
Daughter of Eudes, Count of Orleans.
Sir Morgan (Moroch?) Kavanaugh
264. Sir Moroch Kavanaugh.
Book - House of Kavanaugh, pages 5 - 13. by Anna T. Poynter Kavanaugh.
"Sir Moroch Kavanaugh, son of Donald-anSpaineach, and his sons emigrated to France after 1690..."
LINEAGE OF SIR MOROCH KAVANAUGH
Donald-an-Spaineach (or Donald the Spaniard) of Clonmellon, died in1631. Donach of Clonmollen. Cahyr Carrach. Murtagh of Clonmollen county, died 1547. Arthur Buidhe. Donald Reac. Gerald. Arthur Oge living in 1417. Arthur Mor Kavanaugh, living in 1361. Muirceartach, slain in 1327. Muiris, living in 1314. Muirceartach, was Prince of Leinster. Donald Oge, was Prince of Leinster. Donald Caomhanach, was slain in 1175. Donal na-Ghall, was the 58th King of Leinster. Dermad na-Ghall. Kavanaugh, Lords of Leinster, Ireland.