Emma of Normandy (section Marriage to Æthelred II)
Æthelred from 1002 to 1016, except during a brief interruption in 1013–14 when the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard occupied the English throne. Æthelred died...
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monastery at Prüm. September – King Æthelred I of Northumbria marries Princess Ælfflæd, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, at Catterick. Unrest in Northumbria...
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followed. In 1013, London underwent a long siege and Æthelred was forced to flee abroad. Æthelred returned with his ally the Norwegian king Olaf and reclaimed...
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followed by Edward and Alfred, and then by Æthelred. Sweyn died in February 1014, and leading Englishmen invited Æthelred back on the condition that he promised...
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from Aidan prevents the complete destruction of the settlement. In 676 Æthelred conducted a similar ravaging in Kent and caused such damage in the Rochester...
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Latin Chronicle Æthelweard claims to descend from King Æthelred, while in Book IV he calls Æthelred his atavus, then uses the same term to describe the relationship...
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al-Khinzir raids the south Italian coast (approximate date). Lord Æthelred of Mercia dies. He is buried in St. Oswald's Priory at Gloucester and is succeeded...
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Denmark drove Æthelred and his family from England. Swein's death in 1014 allowed Æthelred to return home, but Swein's son Cnut contested Æthelred's return....
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brother-in-law Æthelred of (what was left of) Mercia, began a programme of expansion, building forts and towns on an Alfredian model. On Æthelred's death, his...
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land for a house of prayer as Weregild for the killing of her brothers Æthelred and Æthelberht. The story is that she was granted as much land as her pet...
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invading forces of Hardrada and Tostig defeated the English earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford near York on 20 September...
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Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Williams, Ann (2003). Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King. Hambledon: Hambledon Continuum....
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of burhs, or it may have been rebuilt around 990 under the Saxon king Æthelred the Unready to hasten his troop movements against Sweyn Forkbeard, father...
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of a division of the Great Heathen Army of the Danes, and of Aethelred, ealdorman of Mercia. In this thesis, the trend of appropriating Gothic royal ancestry...
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Spellings of this name most common in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form Æþelræd...
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still survives, describes her as the "royal sister" of Kings Edward and Æthelred, implying that they recognised her legitimacy. Wulfthryth returned to Wilton...
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774–unknown Pictland Telerig Khan of Bulgaria Bulgaria 777–777† Byzantine Empire Æthelred I King of Northumbria Northumbria 779–790 Ecgberht King of Wessex Wessex...
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Saxon army, under the command of Æthelred I, is defeated at Basing. The Danes, led by Halfdan, are victorious; Æthelred is forced to flee and regroup, leaving...
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al-Khinzir raids the south Italian coast (approximate date). Lord Æthelred of Mercia dies. He is buried in St. Oswald's Priory at Gloucester and is succeeded...
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the Fat, who for the last time reunites the Frankish Empire. King Æthelred II of Mercia marries Princess Æthelflæd, daughter of King Alfred the Great. He...
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Mercia, after which the Vikings seized Nottingham and overwintered there. Although the Mercian and West Saxon kings, Burgred (died 874?) and Æthelred...
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with support from Offa of Mercia. It is not known whether Beorhtric played a role in the murder. Sweyn Forkbeard Æthelred the Unready 1013 - 1014 In...
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old Roman walled area, in 886, and appointed his son-in-law Earl Æthelred of Mercia over it as part of their reconquest of the Viking occupied parts of...
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(890–902) Æthelwold, Sub-King (902) Guthrum II, King (902–918) Mercia (complete list) – Æthelred II, Lord (c.881–911) Æthelflæd, Lady (911–918) Ælfwynn, Lady...
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Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. 939 – The Battle of Alhandic...
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daughter of Æthelred, known as Mucel, an ealdorman of the Gaini). He supports his brother Æthelred I, in his choice to form an alliance with Mercia. King Burgred...
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Barking. Wulfhilda was later restored by Edgar's and Ælfthryth's son, King Æthelred the Unready. Another version of the story says that Queen Ælfthryth, as...
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Queen of Mercia, called "Lady of the Mercians". Daughter of Alfred the Great, she succeeded to Mercian power upon the death of her husband Aethelred, Ealdorman...
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Æthelstan Edmund I Eadred Eadwig Edgar the Peaceful Edward the Martyr Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Edmund Ironside Cnut Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward...
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Elected in London by part of the Witenagemot after the death of his father, Æthelred the Unready; another part elected King Cnut of Denmark in Southampton....
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