Eadnoth the Constable

{{Short description|Anglo-Saxon landowner and steward}}

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{{Infobox noble|type

| name = Eadnoth the Constable

| title = Staller

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| issue = Harding (son)
Robert Fitzharding (grandson)

| birth_date = Unknown

| birth_place = Unknown

| death_date = 1068

| death_place = Bleadon

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| occupation = landowner, steward }}

Eadnoth the Constable (died 1068){{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8384 |title=Eadnoth the Staller (d. 1068) |first=Ann |last=Williams |year=2004 |access-date=15 July 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8384}} also known as Eadnoth the Staller, was an Anglo-Saxon landowner and steward to kings Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson. He is mentioned in the Domesday Book as holding thirty manors in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire, before the Norman conquest.{{cite web|last=Palmer|first=John|title=Ednoth the Constable|url=http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/name/163600/ednoth-the-constable/|work=Domesday Map|publisher=University of Hull|accessdate=15 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106041719/http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/name/163600/ednoth-the-constable/|archive-date=6 January 2012|url-status=dead}} He may have been the same man as Eadnoth of Ugford, also known as Alnoth.{{cite web|last=Palmer|first=John|url=https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/objectView!getDataStreamContent.action?pid=hull:527&dsid=externalDatastream__0.5040097904523488&mimeType=application/rtf|title=Domesday Book: Berkshire Notes|work=Domesday Map|publisher=University of Hull|accessdate=15 July 2011|page=14|format=RTF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327172929/https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/objectView!getDataStreamContent.action?pid=hull%3A527&dsid=externalDatastream__0.5040097904523488&mimeType=application%2Frtf|archive-date=27 March 2012|url-status=dead}} Eadnoth was killed at Bleadon in 1068, leading a force against the two sons of Harold II, who had invaded Somerset. His son Harding became Sheriff of Bristol, and one of his grandsons was Robert Fitzharding, the ancestor of the Berkeley family of Berkeley Castle.