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, Ethelred “The Unready” Ii

Ethelred "The Unready" III8554
b: ABT 972
d: 1016
Biography
Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of sevenfollowing the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at CorfeCastle, Dorset, by Edward''s own supporters.
For the rest of Ethelred''s rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became aposthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Churchtransformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or ''Unready''(meaning ''no counsel'', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win orretain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered themassacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery. Notbeing an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasinglyrapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance withthe duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke''s daughter Emma)and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied througha tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 wasdismissive: ''in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as itpleased''. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld toDanes camped in London. In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when thepowerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned torule after Sweyn''s death in 1014, but died himself in 1016. [Royal]
Facts
  • ABT 972 - Birth -
  • 1016 - Death -
  • From 979 to 1013 - Reign -
  • From 1014 to 1016 - Reign -
Ancestors
   
Edmund I
ABT 921 - 946
 
 
Edgar "The Peaceable"
- 8 JUL 975
  
  
  
Elgiva
-
 
Ethelred "The Unready" II
ABT 972 - 1016
  
 
  
Ordgar
-
 
 
Elfrida
-
  
  
  
?
 
Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) Edgar "The Peaceable"
Birth
Death8 JUL 975
Marriageto Elfrida
Marriageto Ethelfleda
FatherEdmund I
MotherElgiva
PARENT (F) Elfrida
Birth
Death
Marriageto Edgar "The Peaceable"
FatherOrdgar
Mother?
CHILDREN
MEthelred "The Unready" II
BirthABT 972
Death1016
Marriageto Elfgifu
Marriageto Emma
Family Group Sheet - Spouse
PARENT (M) Ethelred "The Unready" II
BirthABT 972
Death1016
Marriageto Elfgifu
Marriageto Emma
FatherEdgar "The Peaceable"
MotherElfrida
PARENT (F) Elfgifu
Birth
Death
Marriageto Ethelred "The Unready" II
Father?
Mother?
CHILDREN
MEdmund II
Birth
DeathNOV 1016
Marriageto Ealdgyth
Family Group Sheet - Spouse
PARENT (M) Ethelred "The Unready" II
BirthABT 972
Death1016
Marriageto Elfgifu
Marriageto Emma
FatherEdgar "The Peaceable"
MotherElfrida
PARENT (F) Emma
Birth
Death
Marriageto Ethelred "The Unready" II
FatherRichard I of Normandy
MotherGunnor
CHILDREN
FGoda of England
Birth
Death
Marriageto Eustace II, Count of Boulogne
Evidence
[S240]Official Web Site of the British Monarchy, The
Descendancy Chart
1 Ethelred "The Unready" II b: ABT 972 d: 1016
+ Elfgifu
2 Edmund II d: NOV 1016
+ Ealdgyth
3 Edward The Excile
+ Agatha b: BEF 1030 d: AFT 1070
4 Margaret Of Scotland b: ABT 1045 d: 16 NOV 1093
+ Máel Coluim mac Donnchada b: ABT 1031 d: 13 NOV 1093
5 Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim
+ Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
6 Henry of Scotland b: 1114 d: 1152
+ Ada de Warenne b: ABT 1120 d: 1178
7 Ada of Huntingdon b: ABT 1146 d: AFT 1206
+ Floris III, Count of Holland
8 William I, Count of Holland
+ Adelaide of Guelders b: ABT 1182 d: 1218
9 Floris IV, Count of Holland
+ Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Holland
10 Adelaide of Holland, Countess of Hainaut b: ABT 1230
+ John of Avesnes
7 Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany
+ Humphrey III de Bohun
8 Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford
+ Maud de Mandeville
9 Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
+ Maud de Lusignan
10 Humphrey de Bohun
+ Eleanor de Braose
+ Conan IV, Duke of Brittany
5 Mary of Scotland, Countess of Boulogne
+ Eustace III, Count of Boulogne
6 Matilda of Boulogne
+ Stephen of Blois
7 Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
+ Matthew of Alsace
8 Matilda of Flanders, Duchess of Brabant
+ Henry I, Duke of Brabant
9 Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Holland
+ Floris IV, Count of Holland
10 Adelaide of Holland, Countess of Hainaut b: ABT 1230
+ John of Avesnes
9 Henry II, Duke of Brabant
+ Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant
+ Maria of Swabia
10 Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois
+ Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
+ Robert I, Count of Artois
5 Eadgith (or Matilda)
+ Henry I of England d: 1 DEC 1135
6 Matilda of England
+ Henry V
+ Geoffrey Plantagenet Count of Anjou
7 Henry II of England b: 5 MAR 1133 d: 6 JUL 1189
+ Ida de Tosny
+ Eleanor of Aquitaine
8 John of England b: 24 DEC 1167 d: 19 OCT 1216
+ Clemence
+ Isabella of Angoulême b: 1188 d: 31 MAY 1246
9 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
+ Isabel Marshal
9 Henry III b: 1 OCT 1207 d: 16 NOV 1272
+ Eleanor of Provence
10 Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
+ Blanche of Artois
10 Edward I b: 17 JUN 1239 d: 7 JUL 1307
+ Eleanor of Castile b: ABT 1245 d: 1290
+ Margaret of France
+ Isabel of Gloucester b: 1173 d: 14 OCT 1217
+ Ela de Warenne
9 Richard FitzRoy Knight b: ABT 1190 d: JUN 1246
+ Rose de Dover
10 Isabel de Dover d: 7/07 JUL 1276/1277
+ Maurice de Berkeley Knight b: 1218 d: 4 APR 1281
8 Eleanor of England
+ Alfonso VIII of Castile b: 11 NOV 1155 d: 5 OCT 1214
9 Berengaria of Castile
+ Alfonso IX of León b: 15 AUG 1171 d: 23/24 SEP 1230
10 Ferdinand III of Castile
+ Joan, Countess of Ponthieu
+ Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen
9 Blanche of Castile
+ Louis VIII of France
10 Charles I of Naples
+ Beatrice of Provence
10 Robert I, Count of Artois
+ Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois
10 Louis IX of France
+ Marguerite of Provence
9 Eleanor of Castile
+ James I of Aragon
10 Isabella of Aragon
+ Philip III of France
+ Emma
2 Goda of England
+ Eustace II, Count of Boulogne

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