Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the...
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– c.1049/1056) was the daughter of King Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor. She married...
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of the English king Æthelred the Unready have generally been less than flattering. Many of these portrayals are based on legendary material about the king...
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St Brice's Day massacre (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes within England on 13 November 1002, on the order of King Æthelred the Unready of England. The...
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Edmund Ironside (redirect from Edmund the Ironside)
known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of...
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Emma of Normandy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish king Cnut the Great....
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970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her...
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the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As...
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Wantage Code (redirect from III Æthelred)
Æthelred, ed./trans. Robertson, pp. 64–65. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 56. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Roach, Æthelred...
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House of Wessex (redirect from Legacy of the House of Wessex)
927. The disastrous reign of Æthelred the Unready ended in Danish conquest in 1014. Æthelred and his son Edmund Ironside attempted to resist the Vikings...
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1012–1036), was one of the eight sons of the English king Æthelred the Unready. He and his brother Edward the Confessor were sons of Æthelred's second wife Emma...
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tragedy by Frances Burney Emma of Normandy adopted the name Ælfgifu upon her marriage to Æthelred the Unready Ælfgifu, wife of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia Ælfgifu...
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regency during the minority of her son King Æthelred the Unready between 978 and 984. Ælfthryth was the first wife of an English king known to have been...
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Archbishop of Canterbury Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (fl. 881–911) Æthelred of Cornwall (fl. 1001), Bishop of Cornwall Æthelred the Unready (978–1016), King...
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Edgar, King of England (redirect from Edgar the Peaceful, King of the English)
University Press for the British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726299-3. Keynes, Simon (1980). The Diplomas of King Æthelred the Unready 978–1016. Cambridge,...
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Eadwig (redirect from Edwy the Fair)
not unity, in the kingdom and avoiding the devastating infighting that would tear England apart during the reign of Æthelred the Unready [...] What seems...
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Collins Early Medieval Europe pp. 376–377 Williams Æthelred the Unready pp. 42–43 Williams Æthelred the Unready pp. 54–55 Huscroft Norman Conquest pp. 80–83...
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Sweyn Forkbeard (redirect from Sven the Dane)
motivated by the St. Brice's Day Massacre in November 1002, where Danes in England were massacred under orders from Æthelred the Unready, in which Sweyn's...
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1018. He was the youngest son of Sweyn Forkbeard and Gunhild of Wenden, and was regent while his father was fighting Æthelred the Unready in England. After...
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Laws of London (redirect from IV Æthelred)
to the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978–1016), but may represent a compilation of a later date, finalised as much as a century later. The work...
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Uhtred of Bamburgh (redirect from Uchtred the Bold)
Uhtred married Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred the Unready. They had a daughter: Ealdgyth, ancestress of the Earls of Dunbar; she married Maldred, called...
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(Old English Eadred Æþeling) (died c. 1012) was the fourth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu. He witnessed charters...
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subsequently entered into the service of the English King Æthelred the Unready as mercenaries, for whom they fought in 1013 against the invasion of Danish King...
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Godwin, Earl of Wessex (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
was accused of unknown crimes at a muster of Æthelred the Unready's fleet and fled with twenty ships; the ships sent to pursue him were destroyed in a...
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was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut. He restored the rule...
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Harthacnut (redirect from Knútr III the Hardy)
out that he was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, the half-brother to Edmund Ironside, the stepson of Cnut, the stepbrother of Harold...
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Ælfgifu of Northampton (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
wife Wulfrun. Ælfhelm was killed in 1006, probably at the command of King Æthelred the Unready, and Ælfgifu's brothers, Ufegeat and Wulfheah, were blinded...
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Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
After the killing of Edward by Ælfthryth's servants in 978, Ælfhere supported the new king, Ælfthryth's son Æthelred the Unready, and was the leading...
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History of Anglo-Saxon England (redirect from England in the Early Middle Ages)
Williams, Aethelred the Unready, p. 54 Williams, Æthelred the Unready, pp. 52–53. Sawyer. Illustrated History of Vikings. p. 76 Wood, In Search of the Dark...
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Ealdorman of the Hwicce by King Æthelred the Unready of England in 994. The territory of the Hwicce was a kingdom in the Western Midlands in the early Anglo-Saxon...
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