Behallow

"Behallow" in a Sentence (2 examples)

[...] bishops and servants of God — the "senatores natu majores," the elders and chiefs of the people — caused his eldest son, Egfurth, to be behallowed (which is the Saxon term used for the consecration of a bishop) as king of Mercia.

Kings are "behallowed" as well as bishops; […]

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