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...

monastery at Prüm. September – King Æthelred I of Northumbria marries Princess Ælfflæd, daughter of King Offa of Mercia, at Catterick. Unrest in Northumbria...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Williams, Ann (2003). Aethelred the Unready: The Ill-Counselled King. Hambledon: Hambledon Continuum....

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...

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...

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...

still survives, describes her as the "royal sister" of Kings Edward and Æthelred, implying that they recognised her legitimacy. Wulfthryth returned to Wilton...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mercia, after which the Vikings seized Nottingham and overwintered there. Although the Mercian and West Saxon kings, Burgred (died 874?) and Æthelred...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Æthelstan Edmund I Eadred Eadwig Edgar the Peaceful Edward the Martyr Æthelred the Unready Sweyn Edmund Ironside Cnut Harold Harefoot Harthacnut Edward...

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....