Æthelred (/ˈæθəlrɛd/; died after 704) was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in 675, when his...

Æthelred (died 911) became Lord of the Mercians in England shortly after the death or disappearance of Mercia's last king, Ceolwulf II, in 879. He is...

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...

King of Mercia Æthelred I (disambiguation), several kings Æthelred II (disambiguation), several kings Æthelred Mucel (fl. 840–895), father of King Alfred...

western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who accepted Alfred's overlordship. Alfred adopted the title King of the Anglo-Saxons...

intermarried with C)   Unknown dynastic affiliation   Mercia under external occupation   Æthelred II and family (recognising West Saxon overlordship) All...

Wulfhere, whose brother Æthelred succeeded to the throne in 675 on Wulfhere's death. In 704, Æthelred abdicated in favour of Coenred to become a monk...

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

Ceolwulf II (died c. 879) was the last king of independent Mercia. He succeeded Burgred of Mercia who was deposed by the Vikings in 874. His reign is...

796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came...

in the 670s by Æthelred, king of Mercia, and records his grant of lands at Gloucester and Pershore to two of his thegns, noblemen of the Hwicce, Osric...

reign of Emperor Vespasian. One of the main army camps in Roman Britain, Deva later became a major civilian settlement. In 689, King Æthelred of Mercia founded...

of Mercia as the 'Second Lady of the Mercians' for a few months in 918, following her mother's death on 12 June 918. She was the daughter of Æthelred...

911 Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, ruled Mercia under the overlordship of Wessex. Alfred changed his title from 'king of the West Saxons' to 'king of the...

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...

his son (and Æthelstan's father) Edward and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians. Æthelred ruled English Mercia under Alfred and was married to his daughter...

the end of the 9th century, but incorporating earlier material. Ceolred's father, Æthelred, came to throne of Mercia in 675 on the death of his brother...

was averted by the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore, and King Æthelred of Mercia paid a weregild to Ecgfrith in compensation for Ælfwine's...

the time of this victory, Penda was probably not yet king of Mercia. His children included two future kings of Mercia: Wulfhere and Æthelred. After Edwin's...

Abbey on the site of the hermitage of his old tutor Máel Dub. Æthelred of Mercia founds the monastery at Breedon on the Hill on the site of The Bulwarks,...

expansion, Mercia lost its province of the Kingdom of Lindsey to Northumbria in 661, but its recapture by Æthelred of Mercia following the Battle of the Trent...

Crida, 6th century) may have been one of the first kings of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, ruling toward the end of the 6th century. Although he is mentioned...

life of Edith that Æthelred was unworthy to rule because "his succession had been purchased with his brother's blood". Stenton comments that Æthelred "began...

fought in the army of King Æthelred of Mercia (r. 675–704). He subsequently became a monk at Repton Monastery in Derbyshire at the age of 24, under the abbess...

King of Mercia, married Ealhflæd, daughter of King Oswiu Wulfhere, King of Mercia 658–675; married Ermenilda of Ely ; Æthelred, King of Mercia 675–704...

of Austrasia, after his predecessor Clovis III is murdered. King Æthelred of Mercia invades Kent, in an attempt to enforce overlordship and diminish Kentish...

siege and Æthelred was forced to flee abroad. Æthelred returned with his ally the Norwegian king Olaf and reclaimed London. A Norse saga tells of a battle...

an offshoot channel of the river between Thorney and Iver. Edward began a siege of the island and was joined by Æthelred of Mercia with soldiers from the...

joined Æthelred to defend London. Æthelred died on 23 April 1016, the nobility and citizens present at London elected Edmund king, while the rest of the...

Leofric (died 31 August or 30 September 1057) was an Earl of Mercia. He founded monasteries at Coventry and Much Wenlock and was a very powerful earl...