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...

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...

woman exercising temporal powers in her own right, as had Æthelflæd of Mercia. Notably, Matilda's husband Geoffrey never adopted the equivalent dominus...

Patriarch of Antioch. 709 May 25 – Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne Æthelred, king of Mercia (approximate date) Bertin, Frankish abbot (approximate date) Gotfrid...

was viewed as martyrdom due to the circumstances. The murdered princes Æthelred and Æthelberht were later commemorated as saints and martyrs. Oswine of...

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...

of Prince Aethelwulf. She has a legitimate son with Aethelwulf, Prince Aethelred, and an illegitimate one with Athelstan, Alfred. Based on the historical...

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

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...