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• AFN: B19R-5C
• Title of Nobility: King of England
• Title of Nobility: King of Wessex (968-1016), King of England (4 Apr 978 - 1016)
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• Acceded: 4 Apr 978, Kingston-upon Thames, Surrey, England
• AKA (Facts Page): From 979 to 1016, Æthelred 'the Unready', King of England
• Baptism: 21 May 1927

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Ethelred II (Old English: Æþelred) (c. 968 - April 23, 1016), known as the Unready, was a King of England (978 - 1013 and 1014 - 1016).
According to William of Malmesbury, Ethelred defecated in the baptismal font as a child, which led St. Dunstan to prophesy that the English monarchy would be overthrown during Ethelred's reign. This story is, however, almost certainly a fabrication.
Ethelred succeeded to the throne aged about 10 following the death of his father King Edgar and subsequent murder of his half-brother Edward the Martyr. His nickname "The Unready" does not mean that he was ill-prepared, but derives from the Anglo-Saxon unræd meaning without counsel. This is also a pun on his name, Æþelræd, which means "Well advised".
Ethelred had at least sixteen children from two marriages, the first to Ælfgifu, the daughter of Thored, the ealdorman of Northumbria and the second, in 1002, to Emma of Normandy, whose grandnephew, William I of England, would later use this relationship as the basis of his claim on the throne.
England had experienced a long period of peace after the reconquest of the Danelaw in the first half of the 10th Century. However in 991 Ethelred was faced with a Viking fleet larger than any since Guthrum's "Summer Army" a century earlier. This fleet was led by Olaf Trygvasson, a Norwegian with ambitions to reclaim his country from under Danish domination. After initial military setbacks including the defeat of his Ealdorman Birhtnoth at the Battle of Maldon, Ethelred was able to come to terms with Olaf, who returned to Norway to gain his kingdom with mixed success. While this arrangement won him some respite England faced further depredations from Viking raids. Ethelred fought these off, but in many cases followed the practice of earlier kings including Alfred the Great in buying them off by payment of what was to become known as Danegeld.
Ethelred ordered the massacre of the Danes living in England on St Brice's Day (November 13) 1002, in response to which Sweyn Haraldsson started a series of determined campaigns to conquer England. In this he succeeded, but after his victory, he only lived for another five weeks.
In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy, seeking protection by his brother-in-law, Robert of Normandy, when England was over-run by Sweyn Haraldsson of Denmark and his forces. He returned in February, 1014, following the death of Sweyn Haraldsson. Ethelred died on April 23, 1016, in London, where he was buried. He was succeeded by his son, Edmund II of England.
Despite the steady stream of viking attacks, Ethelred's reign was far from the disaster described by chroniclers writing well after the event. Ethelred introduced major reforms of the machinery of government in Anglo-Saxon England, and is responsible for the introduction of Shire Reeves or Sheriffs. The quality of the coinage, always a good indicator of the prevailing economic conditions, remained very high during his reign.

!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 Anglo-Saxon King of England from 978-1016. The fact that he was called "the Unready" does not imply that
he lacked energy or resource, but is a corruption of the Old English unraed, "bad Councel", which is in reference to his misfortunes, or that he lacked counsel. Indeed, throughout
his reign he displayed considerable vigor but it was generally misdirected.
For he was impulsive, passionate, cruel, apt to lean on favorites and guided by motives of temporary expediency. Ethelred's reign was marked by bitter military struggles. A worthless favorite, named Aethelsine, appears to have exercised considerable influence over the young King and to have led him to commit and to sanction many acts of oppression. After negotiating a treaty with Richard II, duke of Normandy (d. 1026), Ethelred married Richard's sister Emma (d. 1052). This marriage provided the basis for the subsequent Norman claim to the English throne. Although Ethelred paid tribute to the plundering Danes, Sweyn I (the Forkbeard), King of Denmark, invaded England in 1013 and proclaimed himself king. The invasion of the Danes became more pronounced during Aethelred's reign, and he was obliged to bribe the Danes. In 1014 Ethelred fled to Normandy but returned a few months later upon Sweyn's death. Sweyn's son and successor, Canute II, invaded the country a year later and, following Ethelred's death, became king of England. Aethelred also required that each shire in England should contribute to the fleet of the realm for the purpose of holding off the invaders. This act established a precedent among the English Kings.

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Birth - Date: 968 Place: Wessex, England

PREFIX: Also shown as King Of England

BIRTH: Also shown as Born C 966

DEATH: Also shown as Died London, England.

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried St. Paul's.

Æthelred married Northumbria, Queen consort of England Ælfgifu Abt 985. Ælfgifu (daughter of Gunnarsson, Ealdorman of Northumbria Thored and Hilda) was born Abt 970, Wessex, Devonshire, England; died Abt 1002, Winchester, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Cerdicingas, Edwy died 1017.
2. Cerdicingas, Wulfhilda
3. Cerdicingas, King Of England Edred was born Abt 924, , , Wessex, England; died 23 Nov 955.
4. Cerdicingas, Ætheling Æthelstan was born Abt 986, , , Wessex, England; died 1014, England.
5. Cerdicingas, Prince Of England Egbert was born Abt 987, , , Wessex, England; died 1005, England.
6. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Edward was born Abt 992, , , Wessex, England.
7. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Edgar was born Abt 994, , , Wessex, England.
8. Cerdicingas, Princess Of England Edith was born Abt 995, , , Wessex, England.
9. Cerdicingas, King Of England Edmund II was born 996, , , Wessex, England; died 30 Nov 1016, assasinated in, London, London, England; was buried , Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
10. Cerdicingas, Princess Of Wessex Ælfgifu was born 16 Apr 997, of, Wessex, , England; died 1017, Mercia, England.

Æthelred married Gunnarsson, Queen/England Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Abt 985, Of Wessex, England. Alfgifu (daughter of Gunnarsson, Ealdorman of Northumbria Thored) was born Abt 968, of, , Wessex, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Cerdicingas, Ætheling Æthelstan was born Abt 986, , , Wessex, England; died 1014, England.
2. Cerdicingas, Prince Of England Egbert was born Abt 987, , , Wessex, England; died 1005, England.
3. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Edred was born Abt 990, , , Wessex, England.
4. Cerdicingas, Princeof England Edwig was born Abt 991, , , Wessex, England; died 1017, (slain by Cnut), , , England.
5. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Edward was born Abt 992, , , Wessex, England.
6. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Edgar was born Abt 994, , , Wessex, England.
7. Cerdicingas, Princess Of England Edith was born Abt 995, , , Wessex, England.
8. Cerdicingas, King Of England Edmund II was born 996, , , Wessex, England; died 30 Nov 1016, assasinated in, London, London, England; was buried , Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
9. Cerdicingas, Princess Of Wessex Ælfgifu was born 16 Apr 997, of, Wessex, , England; died 1017, Mercia, England.
10. Cerdicingas, Princess Of England Wulfhild was born Abt 998, , , Wessex, England.
11. Cerdicingas, Queen/Ringmere Athelstan was born Abt 1000, of, , Wessex, England.
12. Cerdicingas Abbess was born Abt 1001, of, Wherewell, Hampshire, England.

Æthelred married De Normandie, queen consort of England, Denmark and Norway Emma 1002. Emma (daughter of Count of Normandy Richard I and Countess of Normandy Gunnor) died 1052. [Group Sheet]

1. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Ælfred Æþeling was born C 1005; died 5 Feb 1036/1037; was buried , Ely Cathedral.
2. Cerdicingas, King Of England Edward III was born 1005, Islip, Oxfordshire, England; died 5 Jan 1066, Oxfordshire, England; was buried 6 Jan 1066, Saint Peter's, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.

Æthelred married De Normandie, Queen of England Emma 1002, of Normandy, France. Emma (daughter of Count of Normandy Richard I and Countess of Normandy Gunnor) was born Abt 982, , , Normandy, France; died 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried , St. Martins Chur, Winchester, Hampshire, Eng. [Group Sheet]

1. Cerdicingas, King Of England Edward III was born 1005, Islip, Oxfordshire, England; died 5 Jan 1066, Oxfordshire, England; was buried 6 Jan 1066, Saint Peter's, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.
2. Cerdicingas, Prince of England Ælfred Æþeling was born C 1005; died 5 Feb 1036/1037; was buried , Ely Cathedral.
3. Cerdicingas, Princess Of England Godgifu was born Abt 1017, , , Wessex, England; died Abt 1055, England.

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• Baptism: Crowned 973, Bath, England
• Royal House: Wessex
• Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_the_Peaceful
• Title of Nobility: The Peaceable King Of England
• Title of Nobility: King of England
• Title of Nobility: The Peaceful 959-975
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• Reigned: From 957 to 975
• Note: Oct 959; Ascended to the throne
• Title of Nobility: 1 Oct 959; King of the English
• Note: 11 May 973; Crowned king at Bath Abbey

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King Edgar the Peaceful (c. 942 - July 8, 975) was the younger son of King Edmund I of England. He won the nickname, "the Peaceable", but in fact was a stronger king than his elder brother, Edwy, from whom he took the kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia in 958. Edgar was acclaimed king north of the Thames by a conclave of Mercian nobles in 958, but officially succeeded when Edwy died in October 959. Immediately Edgar recalled Dunstan (eventually canonised as St. Dunstan) from exile and made him successively Bishop of Worcester, then of London and finally Archbishop of Canterbury, The allegation that Dunstan at first refused to crown Edgar because he disapproved of his way of life, is a discreet reference in popular histories to Edgar's mistress Wulfthryth, a nun at Wilton who bore him a daughter Eadgyth in 961. Dunstan remained Edgar's advisor throughout his reign, nevertheless.
Edgar's reign was a peaceful one, and it is probably fair to say that it saw the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the English at its height. Although other previous kings have been recorded as the founders of 'England', it was Edgar who consolidated this. By the end of Edgar's reign there was little chance of it receding back into its constituent parts, as it had begun to do during the reign of Edwy.
The Monastic Reform Movement that restored the Benedictine Rule to England's undisciplined monastic communities saw its height during the time of Dunstan, Aethelwold and Oswald. However, the extent and importance of the movement is still debated amongst academics.
Edgar was crowned at Bath, but not until 973, an imperial ceremony planned not as the initiation, but as the culmination of his reign, a move that must have taken a great deal of preliminary diplomacy. This service, devised by Dunstan himself, and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony. The symbolic coronation was an important step; other kings of Britain came and gave their allegiance to Edgar shortly afterwards at Chester. Six kings in Britain, including the kings of Scotland and of Strathclyde, pledged their faith that they would be the king's henchmen on sea and land. Later chroniclers made the kings into eight, all plying the oars of Edgar's state barge on the River Dee. Perhaps not, but the main outlines of the "submission at Chester" appear true.
Edgar had several children. He died on July 8, 975 at Winchester, and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. He left two sons, the eldest named Edward, the son of his first wife Ethelfleda, and Ethelred, the youngest, the child of his second wife Elfrida. He was succeeded by his oldest son, King Edward the Martyr.
From Edgar's death to the Norman Conquest there was not a single succession to the throne that was not contended. Although perhaps a simplification, Edgar's death did seem to be the beginning of the end for Anglo-Saxon England that resulted in three 11th century successful conquests, 2 Danish and 1 Norman.

!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 Saxon King of the English. During the rule of his brother, King Edwy, Edgar was chosen by the Mericians and Northumbrians to be their sovereign. One of his first acts was to recall the monastic reformer St. Dunstan, whom Edwy had exiled; Edgar subsequently made Dunstan bishop of Worcester and London and archbishop of Canterbury. In 959 at the age of sixteen years he succeeded his brother
Eadwig as King of the West Saxons and the entire English Kingdom. His reign was not eventful, though it was a
period of national consolidation, peace and orderly government; reformation of the clergy, improvement of the judiciary system, and formation of a fleet to defend the coast against the Scandinavian Vikings.
Eadgar did not interfere with the Danish districts in England, but granted them self-government in their districts. This conciliatory policy met with signal success, and the Danish population lived peacefully under his supremacy. He made alliance with Otto I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and received many gifts from him. His fame had spread abroad and he was respected by the Kings on the continent. Or died in 1016?

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Edgar married Devonshire, Queen of Northumbria Ælfthryth 956. Ælfthryth (daughter of Ealdorman of Devon Ordgar) was born Abt 847; died 1000. [Group Sheet]

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Edmund I The Elder, or Edmund the Deed-Doer (921-May 26, 946) was King of England from 939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan.
Athelstan died on October 27, 939, and Edmund succeeded him as King. Shortly after his preclamation as king he had to face several military threats. King Olaf I of Dublin conquered Northumbria and invaded the Midlands. When Olaf died in 942 Edmund reconquered the Midlands. In 943 he became the god-father of King Olaf of York. In 944, Edmund was successful in reconquering Northumbria. In the same year his ally Olaf of York lost his throne and left for Dublin in Ireland. Olaf became the king of Dublin as Olaf Cuaran and continued to be allied to his god-father. In 945 Edmund conquered Strathclyde but conceded his rights on the territory to King Malcolm I of Scotland. In exchange they signed a treaty of mutual military support. Edmund thus established a policy of safe borders and peaceful relationships with Scotland. During his reign, the revival of monasteries in England began.
Edmund was murdered in 946 by Leofa, an exiled thief. He had been having a party in Pucklechurch, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd. After the outlaw refused to leave, the king and his advisors fought Leofa. Edmund and Leofa were both killed. He was succeeded as king by his brother Edred, king from 946 until 955.
Edmund's sons later ruled England as:
" Edwin of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kent from 957 until his death on October 1, 959.
" Edgar of England, king of only Mercia and Northumbria from 957 until his brother's death in 959, then king of England from 959 until 975.

Edmund married Shaftesbury, Queen of Wessex Ælfgifu 940, prob London, Eng.. [Group Sheet]

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• Death: Farrington, Berkshire, England
• Alt.+Burial: Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England
• Military Service: supressed rebellion of his cousin Athelwold and his allies, the Danes
• Military Service: the Viking fleet from Brittany was ravaged in the Severnd during his reign
• Title of Nobility: Anglorum Saxonum rex (King of the Anglo-Saxons)
• Title of Nobility: ruled all England south of the Humber estuary; Overlord of Scotland & Strathclyde
• Title of Nobility: Ruling House: Wessex
• Title of Nobility: second generation descendant of Alfred the Great
• Occupation: continued King Alfred's policies of fortification and naval strength
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• Baptism: 871, Wessex, England
• Reigned: From 899 to 925; King of England
• Coronation: 900, Kingston upon Thames, England
• Acceded: 31 May 900, Acceced to throne at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
• Ascended: 31 May 900, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England
• Title of Nobility: From 28 October 0901 to 0925; King of England
• Military Service: 910, The Midlands; attacked Danes and won the Battle of Tettenhall
• Military Service: 910; took possession of London, Oxford and vicinities
• Military Service: 918; conquered Mercia
• Military Service: 918; defeated the Danes and took East Anglia
• Military Service: 920; conquered Northumbria
• Title of Nobility: 899/924; King of the Anglo-Saxons

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Edward the Elder (871? - July 17, 924) was King of England (899 - 924). He was the son of Alfred the Great and became King of Wessex upon his father's death in 899.
Edward arguably exceeded Alfred's military achievements, restoring the Danelaw to Saxon rule and reigning in Mercia from 918, after the death of his sister, Ethelfleda. He spent his early reign fighting his cousin Aethelwald, son of Ethelred I. He had about eighteen children from his three marriages, and may have had an illegitimate child, too. He died in 924 and was buried at Winchester. Edmund I, or Edmund the Deed-Doer (921-May 26, 946) who was King of England from 939 was a son of Edward the Elder, and a half-brother to Athelstan.
Athelstan died on October 27, 939, and Edmund succeeded him as King. The portrait included here is imaginary and was drawn together with portraits of other Anglo-Saxon monarchs by an unknown artist in the 18th century.
His daughter, Eadgifu married King Charles III of France. Her son became King Louis IV of France.

!Another source gives his birth as 901

!Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America (973 D2ah) Vol. 2 King of the Angles and Saxons. As a youth, Edward distinguished himself in his father's wars against the Danes. He was as good a soldier as his father, but not as good a scholar. His reign is marked by the widening of his kingdom and the reduction of other princes to a condition of dependence. Edward still had to do much, despite his father's previous efforts, to keep the shores of England free from invasion. He erected a long line of fortresses along the English shores to ward off the Danes. He extended the Saxon division of towns into shires in nearly all of England. In every way he advanced the dinity of the Kingship and he did away with the old custom of clan chieftains. Thus he succeeded in creating a nation out of England, an accomplishment which his predecessors had vainly attempted. Edward also did much for the church by establishing some monasteries and endowing others. Because his reign was one marked with success, Edward has been called "The Unconquered King".

PREFIX: Also shown as King Of Wessex

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 871

DEATH: Also shown as Died 01 Jul

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Edward married Queen of Wessex Eadgifu 919. [Group Sheet]

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