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''Ceorl'' may refer to any of the following: * Ceorl, a rider of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth *
Churl A churl (Old High German ), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled , and denoting the lowest rank of freemen. Ac ...
, a social rank in Anglo-Saxon England, the lowest class of "free" men * King
Cearl of Mercia Cearl (or Ceorl) was an early king of Mercia who ruled during the early part of the 7th century, until about 626. He is the first Mercian king mentioned by Bede in his '' Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum''. Bede was a Northumbrian who was hos ...
, Anglo-Saxon ruler in the early 7th century {{disambig