Æthelred II 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...

Æthelred (/ˈæθəlrɛd/; c. 762  – 18 April 796), was the king of Northumbria from 774 to 779 and again from 790 until he was murdered in 796. He was the...

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

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...

southern Northumbria under the house of Bamburgh. It seems likely that Æthelred did not trust the Scandinavian population of southern Northumbria and wanted...

830. Northumbria in the last years of the eighth century was the scene of dynastic strife between several noble families: in 790, king Æthelred I attempted...

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 York....

two of the competing factions in Northumbria, was king for only a year before being deposed in favour of the previously deposed Æthelred son of Æthelwald...

of Northumbria in 867. The coin's name derives from Old English styċċe [ˈstyttʃe], meaning "piece." Stycas were first minted in the reign of Æthelred...

early 990s. Following the Battle of Maldon in 991, Æthelred paid tribute, or Danegeld, to the Danish king. In 1002, Æthelred ordered what became known as...

Æthelred befriended Bishop Wilfrid of York when Wilfrid was expelled from his see in Northumbria; Æthelred made Wilfrid Bishop of the Middle Angles during his...

Æthelred I (alt. Aethelred, Ethelred; Old English: Æthel-ræd, lit. 'noble counsel'; 845/848 to 871) was King of Wessex from 865 until his death in 871...

Ealdorman of Northumbria; married several times including Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred the Unready Eadwulf Cudel, Ealdorman of Bamburgh De Northumbria post...

Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The ealdordom...

known and the dating of his reign is problematic. Osberht became king after Æthelred son of Eanred was murdered. The date of Æthelred's death is not certain...

by Alhred. Æthelred I of Northumbria, son of Æthelwald, reigned for 10 interrupted years to 796. Halfdan Ragnarsson was a Viking leader of the Great Heathen...

(modern Spain). The city is recaptured by the Muslim Arabs. King Æthelred II of Northumbria sends military assistance to the Picts, in their fight against...

Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira...

and thus a grandson of Eadberht Eating. Ælfwald became king after Æthelred son of Æthelwald Moll was deposed in 778. He was murdered, probably at Chesters...

and pillaging it; but are expelled by forces of the Emirate of Córdoba. King Æthelred II of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by Rædwulf, who takes...

daughter of King Æthelred II. This follows the ancestry given in the earlier De obsessione Dunelmi, in which Gospatric's father is named as Maldred, son of Crinan...

and pillaging it; but are expelled by forces of the Emirate of Córdoba. King Æthelred II of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by Rædwulf, who takes...

Eanred was king of Northumbria in the early ninth century. Very little is known for certain about Eanred. The only reference made by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...

claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred I. Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced...

of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is venerated as a saint, of whom there was a particular cult in the Middle Ages. Oswald was the son of Æthelfrith...

Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and sister of King Harold II of England Ælfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria Ælfgyva,...

exile Æthelred I of Northumbria, 774-779 and 788/789-796 Osred II of Northumbria, 789 to 790, deposed and went into exile Osbald of Northumbria, 796,...

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

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

Æthelstan became first king of England in 927. The disastrous reign of Æthelred the Unready ended in Danish conquest in 1014. Æthelred and his son Edmund Ironside...