ALDINGAR, SIR

ALDINGAR, SIR
   legendary character, the steward of Eleanor, wife of Henry II., who accused her of infidelity, and offered to substantiate the charge by combat, when an angel in the form of a child appeared and certified her innocence.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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