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- Aethelred (died 716, Bardney, Eng.) was the king of Mercia, who was a benefactor of many churches in his several provinces and at last retired to a monastery. He succeeded his brother Wulfhere in 675 and early on spent most of his time in warfare.
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Aethelred (died 716, Bardney, Eng.) was the king of Mercia, who was a benefactor of many churches in his several provinces and at last retired to a monastery. He succeeded his brother Wulfhere in 675 and early on spent most of his time in warfare. In 676 he ravished Kent, taking Rochester.
Father. Edgar, King of the English. Mother. Ælfthryth. 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] His epithet comes from the Old English ...
Æthelred of Mercia - The forgotten man who helped build England. Michael McComb. Æthelred of Mercia remains an obscure figure who suffers from being overshadowed by the more impressive figures of the Anglo-Saxon period: his father-in-law, Alfred the Great and his wife, Æthelflæd.
Apr 24, 2023 · During Viking incursions, Alfred the Great – the powerful king of Wessex – and Aethelred of Mercia formed a political and familial partnership that took the first steps in a process which would eventually lead to the unification of England. Here is the story of Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians.
Æthelred ( / ˈæθəlrɛd /; died after 704) was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an illness. Within a year of his accession he invaded Kent, where his armies destroyed the city of Rochester.
The Oxford Companion to British History. Æthelred, lord of the Mercians (d. 911). Of unknown origins, by 883 Æthelred was in control of that western part of Mercia which had been left under Anglo-Saxon control when Vikings conquered the rest of the province.
