Ætheling (/ˈæθəlɪŋ/; also spelt aetheling, atheling or etheling) was an Old English term (æþeling) used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of...
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title Ætheling. Also spelt Æþeling, Aetheling, Atheling, or Etheling. The title Ætheling denotes a prince eligible for the throne. "Edgar Ætheling". Oxford...
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Edward the Exile (redirect from Edward Ætheling)
Edward the Exile (1016 – 19 April 1057), also called Edward Ætheling, was the son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. He spent most of his life in...
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Æthelred the Unready (redirect from Egbert Ætheling)
Ætheling (died 1014) Ecgberht Ætheling (died c. 1005) Edmund Ironside (King of England, died 1016) Eadred Ætheling (died before 1013) Eadwig Ætheling...
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William Adelin (redirect from William the Aetheling)
William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus...
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Æthelstan Ætheling (Old English: Æþelstan Æþeling; early or mid 980s –25 June 1014) was the eldest son of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife...
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attempted to restore the House of Wessex to the throne of England. Alfred Ætheling landed on the coast of Sussex with a Norman mercenary body guard and attempted...
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Æthelwold disputed the throne with Alfred's son, Edward the Elder. As senior ætheling (prince of the royal dynasty eligible for kingship), Æthelwold had a strong...
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of Edmund Ironside, but "ætheling" means son of a king and other Edmunds were called "Ætheling", or occasionally "the Ætheling", including Æthelred the...
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Eadwig Ætheling (sometimes also known as Eadwy or Edwy) (died 1017) was the fifth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu...
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Eadred Ætheling (Old English Eadred Æþeling) (died c. 1012) was the fourth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu. He witnessed...
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four years later. Ætheling means "prince of the royal house" and usually denoted a son or brother of a ruling king. Edgar the Ætheling was another claimant...
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resurrection. Edmund had two children by Ealdgyth: Edward the Exile and Edmund Ætheling. According to John of Worcester, Cnut sent them to Sweden where he probably...
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Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (redirect from Edwin Ætheling)
witnesses the charter immediately after his half-brother and is described as ætheling (clito). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that Edwin drowned at sea in...
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Normans under William the Conqueror. Edward's young great-nephew Edgar the Ætheling of the House of Wessex was proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings...
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the submission of the surviving English leaders, but instead Edgar the Ætheling was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot, with the support of Earls Edwin...
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of English noblemen whom he considered suspect. Æthelred's son Eadwig Ætheling fled from England but was killed on Cnut's orders. Edmund Ironside's sons...
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Edward the Elder (section Ætheling)
princess receiving the same upbringing. As a son of a king, Edward was an ætheling, a prince of the royal house who was eligible for kingship. Even though...
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era when members of the deposed House of Wessex, especially Edgar the Ætheling and his nephews of the Scottish House of Dunkeld, were still active in...
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Anglo-Saxon attempts to restore native rule in the person of Edgar the Ætheling, a grandson of Edmund Ironside who had originally been passed over in favour...
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Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish...
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Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (sovereign) Ætheling (prince) Ealdorman (Earl) Hold / High-reeve Thegn Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff)...
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Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (sovereign) Ætheling (prince) Ealdorman (Earl) Hold / High-reeve Thegn Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff)...
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report in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of the death of "Brihtsige, son of the ætheling Beornoth" in the Battle of the Holme in East Anglia in 902. He was probably...
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makes Ælfgifu an accomplice in the murder of Emma's youngest son, Alfred Aetheling, by suggesting that she was responsible for sending a forged letter to...
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King Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings, the Witan elected Edgar Ætheling as king, but by then the Normans controlled the country and Edgar never...
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Anglo-Saxon status Cyning (sovereign) Ætheling (prince) Ealdorman (Earl) Hold / High-reeve Thegn Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff)...
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Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha, was the sister of Edgar Ætheling and Saint Margaret of Scotland, born in the 1040s. Cristina's nieces Edith...
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the Exile, a candidate for the throne of England, and mother of Edgar Ætheling, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Cristina. Her antecedents are unclear and...
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