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Æthelred's 37-year combined reign was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon English king and was only surpassed in the 13th century, by Henry III. Æthelred was briefly succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside, but Edmund died after a few months and was replaced by Sweyn's son Cnut.
20 Σεπ 2024 · Ethelred the Unready (born 968?—died April 23, 1016, London, England) was the king of the English from 978 to 1013 and from 1014 to 1016. He was an ineffectual ruler who failed to prevent the Danes from overrunning England.
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21 Απρ 2016 · This coinage is material evidence of ‘Dane-geld’, money paid to England’s enemies in attempts to forestall Viking invasions of England. Inevitably remembered as ‘the Unready’, Æthelred died exactly 1,000 years ago on 23 April 1016 – 50 years before the Norman Conquest.
Aethelred's epithet, commonly said to be 'Unready,' dates from sometime after his reign. It has nothing to do with being ill-prepared, but means 'the Ill-Advised'; a name for which he was well suited.
England and Spain during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready - 3 - The ‘Spanish’ analogy for Anglo-Saxon England in the tenth century lies in part with the Christian kingdoms of northern Spain, and in part with the caliphate of Córdoba in the south.8 A visitor coming from England would have passed from south-
Æthelred was twice married, and all his sons bear the names of earlier English kings. With his first wife, Ælfgifu, he had six sons (Æthelstan, Ecgberht, King Edmund Ironside, Eadred, Eadwig, Edgar), and perhaps five daughters.
