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...

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

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...

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

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...

would "beshrew [Æthelred] of his life, and afterwards all his council, and then have his kingdom without any resistance." King Æthelred thus ordered the...

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...

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...

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...

Æthelred was a medieval Bishop of Cornwall. Æthelred was bishop about 1001 and died sometime after that. Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 218...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 defeat against...

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

succeeded by Æthelred as Lord of the Mercians. Alfred the Great of Wessex styled himself King of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886. In 886/887 Æthelred married...

depicted interactions between Æthelred and his court, family and advisors, and also with the Danish king, Sweyn Forkbeard. Æthelred was portrayed by Richard...

Denmark drove Æthelred and his family from England. Swein's death in 1014 allowed Æthelred to return home, but Swein's son Cnut contested Æthelred's return....

Æthelred II (fl c. 875) was king of East Anglia. No textual evidence of his reign is known, but numismatic evidence points to his reign being in the 870s...