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5 days ago · 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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4 days ago · Indeed, Snorro Sturleson, the Icelandic historian, tells us that when the Danes invaded England in 1008, in the reign of Ethelred the Unready (ominous name!), they entrenched themselves in Southwark, and held the fortified bridge, which had penthouses, bulwarks, and shelter-turrets.
The very name of Aethelred the unready could be proof of his decent by the brother of Aelfred the Great, as none of the three generations after him named one of their sons Aethelred.
4 days ago · Late Saxon. Archaeological Index of the Saxon Period. Footnotes. Anglo-Saxon Remains. As a territorial unit Oxfordshire does not receive actual mention until the time of Ethelred the Unready, (fn. 1) though it must have been in being long previously.
3 days ago · Three years later Edward was murdered and succeeded by his younger half-brother, Æthelred the Unready. Later chroniclers presented Edgar's reign as a golden age when England was free from external attacks and internal disorder, especially compared with Æthelred's disastrous rule.
1 day ago · History of England. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).
4 days ago · The manor of HAMBLETON, with the rest of Martinsley wapentake, first appears as part of the dower of Aelfthryth, mother of Ethelred the Unready, and afterwards as dower of Ethelred's queen Emma.
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