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1 Ιαν 2024 · The marriage of Æthelred and Æthelflæd proved a vital part of the development of unity between the peoples of Mercia and Wessex, not only providing a visual display of harmony of both realms ...
Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, [n 1] pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016. [1]
9 Σεπ 2024 · Aethelred ruled as Lord of the Mercians from c. 881 to 911 and was a key military leader in the fight against Viking conquest and settlement in England. To defend Mercia, he allied himself to the powerful...
20 Σεπ 2024 · Ethelred the Unready 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. The epithet “unready” is derived from unraed, meaning “bad counsel” or “no counsel,” and puns on his name, which means.
21 Απρ 2016 · A silver penny struck more than ten centuries ago (on display in the Fitzwilliam Museum) shows Æthelred, King of the English. The obverse shows the king in profile and the reverse a Christian cross.
England and Spain in general terms. In the middle of the eighth century, at about the time when the Arabs became firmly established in Spain, the peoples known collectively as the English were distributed among seven identifiable polities: the ‘Anglian’ kingdoms of the Northumbrians, the Mercians, and the East Angles; the
3 Απρ 2023 · History has portrayed King Ethelred II, often known as Æthelred the Unready, as a largely incompetent leader whose terrible decision making and drastic mismanagement of the Viking invasions almost bankrupted the country.
