As to Wulfric's identity, it seems likely that he was one of the Anglo-Saxon emigrants who had left England for the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/600591529401516032 …
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Disc from a pendant showing the Byzantine empress Theodora Porphyrogenita (1055–56), found nr Hitchin, Hertfordshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/725343 …pic.twitter.com/Ivn1gRM6Zb
Slightly earlier, a silver Byzantine coin of Romanus III (1028–34), gilded & mounted as a pendant; found near Hertford: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/216514 …pic.twitter.com/7RUcR1hdMr
When the Byzantine Emperor himself actually visited England in 1400–01:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/944889804029874179 …
An anecdote concerning a fight between Hardigt, a man sent by the Anglo-Saxon emigrants to the Emperor, and some lions at Constantinople, from the Laon chronicle account of Nova Anglia, see http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/wulfric-of-lincoln-byzantine-ambassador.html …pic.twitter.com/7ymYUuAeTN
Some tombstones of 'English Varangians' were apparently still to be seen at Constantinople in 1865, but were subsequently destroyed: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qocKfNid3SUC&lpg=PA147&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/Fa5Wjh22EX
A silver Byzantine coin of Isaac I, c.1057–59 AD. Minted at Constantinople and found at Wilby, Suffolk: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/705127 …pic.twitter.com/ROd0stPnu1
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