They were anxious to make their peace with Æthelred, but unwilling to hand Ælfgifu and her son over to Æthelred to be killed, so they sent the mother and...
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third man in Cnut's new triumvirate of earls", the other two being Godwine, Earl of Wessex and Leofwine, Earl of Mercia. Northern England in the 11th-century...
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woman exercising temporal powers in her own right, as had Æthelflæd of Mercia. Notably, Matilda's husband Geoffrey never adopted the equivalent dominus...
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Patriarch of Antioch. 709 May 25 – Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne Æthelred, king of Mercia (approximate date) Bertin, Frankish abbot (approximate date) Gotfrid...
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was viewed as martyrdom due to the circumstances. The murdered princes Æthelred and Æthelberht were later commemorated as saints and martyrs. Oswine of...
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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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of Prince Aethelwulf. She has a legitimate son with Aethelwulf, Prince Aethelred, and an illegitimate one with Athelstan, Alfred. Based on the historical...
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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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Led troops against the Vikings. After her husband, Æthelred died, she became the sole ruler of Mercia. Agatha c. 235 Sicily Hypatia Rejected the advances...
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