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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
Aethelred II, also known as Aethelred the Unready, was king of the English from 978-1013 and 1014-1016. His long reign was initially stable, but Viking attacks on England escalated from the 990s onward.
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]
H E N R Y I I. Henry II (1154–1189) married the strong French woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was king over England and much of France as well as other territories; English rule over Ireland began during his reign. He had tremendous energy and was an effective leader over all the lands he ruled.
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.
The facts that Æthelred was forced into exile in Normandy in 1013-14 by the Dane Swein Forkbeard, and that by the end of 1016 Swein's son Cnut was king of England, demonstrate that Æthelred was not equal to the task of keeping the Vikings out of England.
28 Ιουν 2017 · Known as the Un-raed, 'redeless' 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.
