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- On March 18, 978, Edward was invited to visit his step-mother Aelfthryth and half-brother Aethelred at Corfe Castle. As he arrived on his horse, he was promptly stabbed to death in the courtyard by retainers.
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Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, 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.
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Apr 19, 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 .
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Aug 11, 2022 · Whilst Edmund ended his feud with his father in the face of the bigger Viking threat to their land, Aethelred had already reached the end of his time as king. On 23rd April 1016, amidst continuing battles for control, Aethelred passed away, leaving the fate of his land in the hands of his son.
Jun 28, 2017 · By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London. In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016.
The notice of Æthelred's death in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle adds that ‘he had held his kingdom with great toil and difficulties as long as his life lasted’; and we learn from later sources that Æthelred was buried with all due honour in the church of St Paul.
Æthelred was briefly succeeded by his son, Edmund Ironside, but he died after a few months and was replaced by Sweyn's son Cnut. Oops something went wrong: Æthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.
Apr 23, 2016 · Today marks the 1000th anniversary of the death of King Æthelred II (reigned 978-1016). Æthelred II—often nicknamed Æthelred the ‘Unready’, from the Old English word for 'ill-advised'—has not enjoyed a glowing reputation throughout history. Passage describing Æthelred’s death from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle C-text, England, 11th century, Cotton MS Tiberius B...
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