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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Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor. She married firstly Drogo of Mantes, count of 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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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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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 on 13 November 1002 ordered by King Æthelred the Unready of England in response to a perceived...
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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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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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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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Æthelred is also the subject of Richard Edward Wilson's Æthelred the Unready, a comical one-act opera composed in 1992. He is also referenced in the Sid...
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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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