Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the...

Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor. She married firstly Drogo of Mantes, count of the...

known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of...

the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As...

The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes on 13 November 1002 ordered by King Æthelred the Unready of England in response to a perceived...

970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her...

became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish king Cnut the Great....

Æthelred is also the subject of Richard Edward Wilson's Æthelred the Unready, a comical one-act opera composed in 1992. He is also referenced in the Sid...

Æthelred, ed./trans. Robertson, pp. 64–65. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 56. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Roach, Æthelred...

927. The disastrous reign of Æthelred the Unready ended in Danish conquest in 1014. Æthelred and his son Edmund Ironside attempted to resist the Vikings...

 1012–1036), was one of the eight sons of the English king Æthelred the Unready. He and his brother Edward the Confessor were sons of Æthelred's second wife Emma...

regency during the minority of her son King Æthelred the Unready between 978 and 984. Ælfthryth was the first wife of an English king known to have been...

England Ælfgifu, daughter of Æthelred the Unready and wife of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria Ælfgyva, a woman of unknown identity in the Bayeux Tapestry Elgiva...

University Press for the British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726299-3. Keynes, Simon (1980). The Diplomas of King Æthelred the Unready 978-1016. Cambridge,...

briefly ruled as king of England following the death of his father Æthelred the Unready in April 1016. Æthelred had spent most of his reign unsuccessfully...

not unity, in the kingdom and avoiding the devastating infighting that would tear England apart during the reign of Æthelred the Unready [...] What seems...

motivated by the St. Brice's Day Massacre in November 1002, where Danes in England were massacred under orders from Æthelred the Unready, in which Sweyn's...

was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut. He restored the rule...

subsequently entered into the service of the English King Æthelred the Unready as mercenaries, for whom they fought in 1013 against the invasion of Danish King...

Williams, Aethelred the Unready, p. 54 Williams, Æthelred the Unready, pp. 52–53. Sawyer. Illustrated History of Vikings. p. 76 Wood, In Search of the Dark...

Collins Early Medieval Europe pp. 376–377 Williams Æthelred the Unready pp. 42–43 Williams Æthelred the Unready pp. 54–55 Huscroft Norman Conquest pp. 80–83...

Archived October 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, pp. 152–3; Williams, A., Æthelred the Unready The Ill-Counselled King, Hambledon...

Normandy, who was Queen Consort through her two marriages to Æthelred the Unready and Cnut the Great. Agnatic descendants of Rollo: Rollo, d. ~927, Count...

1018. He was the youngest son of Sweyn Forkbeard and Gunhild of Wenden, and was regent while his father was fighting Æthelred the Unready in England. He...

Archbishop of Canterbury Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (fl. 881–911) Æthelred of Cornwall (fl. 1001), Bishop of Cornwall Æthelred the Unready (978–1016), King...

was accused of unknown crimes at a muster of Æthelred the Unready's fleet and fled with twenty ships; the ships sent to pursue him were destroyed in a...

After the killing of Edward by Ælfthryth's servants in 978, Ælfhere supported the new king, Ælfthryth's son Æthelred the Unready, and was the leading...

The peace treaty agreed between King Æthelred II, also commonly referred to as Æthelred the Unready, and the leaders of the Viking forces came during...

an important document from the reign of King Æthelred the Unready. Wulfric was a patron of the Burton Abbey, around which the modern town of Burton on Trent...

Æthelmær the Stout or Æthelmær the Fat (died 1015) a leading thegn from the 980s, discðegn (dish-bearer or seneschal) to King Æthelred the Unready, and briefly...