witan

witan (wit-[schwa]n). [Anglo-Saxon “wise men”] Hist. The members of the king’s council who sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters. • Among the members were ealdormen, bishops, abbots, high officers, and occasionally the king’s friends and relatives.

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