Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
After Sweyn died in 1014, Æthelred returned to the throne, but he died just two years later. 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.
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.
Æthelwulf died in 858 and was succeeded by his oldest surviving son, Æthelbald, as king of Wessex and by his next oldest son, Æthelberht, as king of Kent. Æthelbald only survived his father by two years and Æthelberht then for the first time united Wessex and Kent into a single kingdom.
21 Απρ 2016 · Inevitably remembered as ‘the Unready’, Æthelred died exactly 1,000 years ago on 23 April 1016 – 50 years before the Norman Conquest. The same date in April is recorded as the day of the death of William Shakespeare (in 1616) and also celebrated each year as St George’s Day.
3 Απρ 2023 · Ethelred himself died on St George’s Day, 23 April 1016. His son and heir, Edmund II Ironside, succeeded him, but died shortly after, leaving Canute to claim the English throne. Ethelred was buried at the old St Paul’s Cathedral, but both the tomb and the cathedral were lost in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
12 Οκτ 2023 · King Edgar died in July 975, leaving both his sons under age. Probably with the support of his mother, Æthelred's claim to the throne was put forward but his older half-brother Edward became king. Æthelred was granted estates appropriate for a king's son, including lands that had previously been given to Abingdon Abbey.
5 Απρ 2013 · In the midst of the Danish invasion, and after a reign of over 38 years, Æthelred, king of the English, died at London on St George's Day (23 April) 1016.
