Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the...

Look up Æthelred in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Æthelred (/ˈæθəlrɛd/; Old English: Æþelræd [ˈæðelræːd]) or Ethelred (/ˈɛθəlrɛd/) is an Old English...

turn became king. Æthelred succeeded his elder brother Æthelberht and was followed by his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Æthelred had two sons, Æthelhelm...

London over to Æthelred, as it had traditionally been a Mercian town. In 892, the Vikings renewed their attacks, and the following year, Æthelred led an army...

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...

the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of York. Edmund's reign was marred...

alliance between the surviving English kingdoms by marrying Æthelflæd to Æthelred. Æthelred played a major role in fighting off renewed Viking attacks in the...

Mercia and Northumbria. Æthelred befriended Bishop Wilfrid of York when Wilfrid was expelled from his see in Northumbria; Æthelred made Wilfrid Bishop of...

retaliation by the Danish King over the next few years would earn Æthelred the nickname Æthelred the Ill-Advised (or the Unready.) The skeletons of over 30 young...

Æthelred II or Ethelred II may refer to: Æthelred II of East Anglia, king 870s Æthelred II of Northumbria, king 840s/850s Æthelred the Unready, also Æthelred...

with Alcuin's letters to Æthelred blaming this event on the sins of Æthelred and his nobility. On 29 September 792 Æthelred married Ælfflæd the daughter...

1013, during the siege of London by the Danes, Æthelred and his family took refuge in Normandy. Æthelred regained the throne in 1014 and died in 1016....

up a strong resistance, because King Æthelred and Thorkell the Tall, a Viking leader who had defected to Æthelred, personally held their ground against...

supported by Æthelred. Other historians, however, do not agree that there was a deposition of the king supported by the archbishop at this time. Æthelred also...

the Latinised version; c.1004 – c.1049/1056) was the daughter of King Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward...

Edmund and Æthelred. When Edgar died on 8 July 975 there was a dispute over the succession, but as Edward was around thirteen and Æthelred six to nine...

back to Æthelred, on his return. Uhtred also married Æthelred’s daughter Ælfgifu about this time.: 15–16  In 1016 Uhtred campaigned with Æthelred's son Edmund...

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...

Æthelred I or Ethelred I may refer to: Æthelred I of Wessex, King of Wessex from 865 to 871 Æthelred I of Northumbria, King of Northumbria from 774 to...

Æthelberht relate that Æthelred and his queen Leofruna dwelt at Beodricesworth, now the Suffolk town of Bury St. Edmunds. Æthelred was the father of Æthelberht...

subsequently rejected by Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 25. Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 25; Keynes, “Æthelred”; Handbook of British Chronology...

Æethelred of East Anglia may refer to: Æthelred I of East Anglia fl. c760s-780s Æthelred II of East Anglia fl. c 875 This disambiguation page lists articles...

Æthelred Mucel was an Anglo-Saxon noble from Mercia who was the father of Ealhswith, the wife of Alfred the Great. Æthelred witnessed several charters...

daughter of King Æthelred. This was a political marriage, intended to strengthen alliances. Although instrumental in serving Æthelred for many years, Eadric...

January 871, Æthelred and Alfred defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown. The Danes retreated to Basing (in Hampshire), where Æthelred attacked and...

referred to as III Æthelred (abbreviated III Atr), is an early English legal text. Recorded in Old English, it is a record of laws that Æthelred the Unready...

to have been on good terms with his younger brothers, the future kings Æthelred I and Alfred the Great. The kingdom came under attack from Viking raids...

Æthelred was king of Northumbria in the middle of the ninth century, but his dates are uncertain. N. J. Higham gives 840 to 848, when he was killed, with...

kingdom fell to the Vikings quickly, and near the end of the year King Æthelred fled to Normandy, leaving Sweyn Forkbeard in possession of England. In...

by Æthelred in 1002. Sweyn died in 1014 and Æthelred was restored. However, in 1015 Sweyn's son, Cnut the Great, invaded England. After Æthelred died...