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 Abt 968 - 1016 (~ 48 years)
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| Name |
Ethelred II "The Unready" King Of ENGLAND |
| Nickname |
The Unready |
| Born |
Abt 968 |
Wessex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| AFN |
B19R-5C |
| Relationship (J,M&L) |
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| Name |
Aethelred II "The Unready" Of WESSEX |
| Name |
The Unready |
| _UID |
41EC8E7EDABD4F20A2C61747ACB386F3DDCA |
| Died |
23 Apr 1016 |
London, Middlesexshire, England |
| Buried |
St Paul's, London, Middlesex, England |
| Person ID |
I10694 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
5 Feb 2012 |
| Father |
Edgar "The Peacable" King Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 943, , Wessex, England , d. 8 Jul 975, , Wessex, England (Age ~ 32 years) |
| Mother |
Elfrida (Elfthryth) Queen Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 947, Of, Devonshire, England , d. 1000 (Age ~ 53 years) |
| Married |
964 |
, Wessex, England |
| Family ID |
F5357 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Queen Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 968, Of, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Married |
Abt 985 |
Of, Wessex, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Athelstan Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 986, Of, Wessex, England , d. 1016, , England (Age ~ 30 years) |
| | 2. Egbert Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 987, Of, Wessex, England , d. Abt 1005, , England (Age ~ 18 years) |
| | 3. Edmund II "Ironside" King Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 988, Of, Wessex, England , d. 30 Nov 1016, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 28 years) |
| | 4. Edred Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 990, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Edwig Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 991, Wessex, England , d. 1017, , England (Age ~ 26 years) |
| | 6. Edward Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 992, Of, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. Edgar Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 994, Of, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. Edith Princess Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 995, Of, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Elfgifu Princess Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 997, Wessex, England , d. Aft 1040 (Age ~ 44 years) |
| | 10. Wulfhild Princess Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 998, Of, Wessex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 11. Miss Ethelred Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1001, Of, Wherewell, Hampshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F5358 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Emma Princess Of NORMANDY, b. Abt 982, Normandie (Normandy), France , d. 6 Mar 1051-1052, , Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 70 years) |
| Married |
1002 |
Of Normandie, France |
| Children |
| | 1. Alfred Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1002, , Wessex, England , d. Abt 1036, , England (Age ~ 34 years) |
| | 2. Edward III "The Confessor" King Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1004, , Islip, Oxfordshire, England , d. 5 Jan 1065-1066, , London, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 62 years) |
| | 3. Goda (Godgifu) Princess Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1004, Of, Wessex, England , d. Abt 1055, , England (Age ~ 51 years) |
| | 4. Ingelric "The Saxon" Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1006, Of St. Martin`s, -Le Grand, London, Middlesex, England , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F5360 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of seven following the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters.
For the rest of Ethelred's rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became a posthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Church transformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered the massacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery.
Not being an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke's daughter Emma) and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied through a tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 was dismissive: 'in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as it pleased'. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London.
In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016.
Source: lorenfamily.com
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