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Æthelred's and Archbishop
It is unclear whether this innovation, seemingly drafted by Archbishop Wulfstan II, dates from Æthelred's reign.
Lyfing was unable to go to Rome for his pallium during King Æthelred's reign, for every bishop that was consecrated during the remainder of the king's reign was consecrated by Archbishop Wulfstan of York.
Early in Æthelred's reign, Theodore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, began a substantial reorganization of the church in Mercia.
As Edward and his brother Æthelred were both quite young, they did not directly participate in the struggle, which was led on the one side by Æthelred's mother and on the other by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Æthelred's and Canterbury
Æthelred's support for Wilfrid embroiled him in dispute with both Canterbury and Northumbria, and it is not clear what his motive was, though it may be relevant that some of Wilfrid's monasteries were in Mercian territory.

Æthelred's and .
The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.
Because the nickname was first recorded in the 1180s, more than 150 years after Æthelred's death, it is doubtful that it carries any implications for how the king was seen by his contemporaries or near contemporaries.
On Æthelred's death his wife ( Edward's sister ) Æthelflæd ruled as " Lady of the Mercians " and continued expansion.
However, Æthelred's son Edmund II Ironside died shortly afterwards, allowing Canute, Sweyn's son, to become king of England.
Swein's death in 1014 allowed Æthelred to return home, but Swein's son Cnut contested Æthelred's return.
After Æthelred's death 911 Æthelflæd ruled as ‘ Lady of the Mercians ’ but Edward took control of London and Oxford, which Alfred had placed under Æthelred's control.
Godwin was probably an adherent of Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan, who left him an estate when he died in 1014.
When Harthacnut himself died in 1042 Godwin supported the claim of Æthelred's last surviving son Edward the Confessor to the throne.
Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan had long been recognised as heir apparent, and charter evidence shows that Edward ranked behind all Æthelred's sons by his first marriage, but Æthelstan died in June 1014, and Emma now tried to get her own son, the ten year old Edward, recognised as heir.
She was an ally of her husband's most trusted adviser, the deeply distrusted Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia, and he took her side, but she was opposed by Æthelred's oldest surviving son, Edmund Ironside, and his allies, who naturally regarded him as the heir.
In the view of M. K. Lawson, the intensity of Edmund's struggle against the Danes in 1016 is only matched by Alfred the Great's in 871, and contrasts with Æthelred's failure.
In the same year as Æthelred's succession as king, a great Viking army arrived in England, and within five years they had destroyed two of the principal English kingdoms, Northumbria and East Anglia.
In 868 Æthelred's brother-in-law, Burgred king of Mercia, appealed to him for help against the Vikings.
Historians Barbara Yorke and Pauline Stafford, and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, treat the charter as showing that Wulfthryth was Æthelred's queen.
Of other early sources, the life of Oswald of Worcester, attributed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey, adds that Edward was killed by Æthelred's advisers, who attacked him when he was dismounting.
Firstly, that Edward was killed, as the life of Oswald claims, by nobles in Æthelred's service, either as a result of a personal quarrel, or to place their master on the throne.
The body was taken to the Shaftesbury Abbey, a nunnery with royal connections which had been endowed by King Alfred the Great and where Edward and Æthelred's grandmother Ælfgifu had spent her latter years.
A skaldic tradition describes the bridge's destruction in 1014 by Æthelred's ally Olaf, to divide the Danish forces who held both the walled City of London and Southwark.

descendants and include
Algae constitute a paraphyletic and polyphyletic group, as they do not include all the descendants of the last universal ancestor nor do they all descend from a common algal ancestor, although their plastids seem to have a single origin.
Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles.
The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.
Examples of this type include most of the descendants of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá during Shoghi Effendi's time.
They mainly include descendants of immigrants from Italy, Germany, and France, as well as other countries.
The descendants of the 8088 include the 80188, 80186, 80286, 80386, and later software compatible processors, which are in use today.
Besides the still surviving Kuitra of Algiers and Morocco, its descendants include the Chitarra Italiana, Chitarrone and Colascione.
Today, they include descendants of African Americans once enslaved by the Cherokees, who were granted, by federal treaty, citizenship in the historic Cherokee Nation as freedmen after the Civil War.
Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages ( see Maya numerals ).
Groups that do include all the descendants of the most recent common ancestor are said to be monophyletic.
By the 21st century, vertebrate paleontologists were beginning to adopt phylogenetic taxonomy, in which all groups are defined in such a way as to be monophyletic ; that is, groups include all descendants of a particular ancestor.
The D-50's descendants include the D-5, D-10, D-110 ( rack unit ), and D-20 synthesizers.
The E-20's descendants include the E-70, E-86, G-800, G-1000, G-70 and the current E-80.
Bruce's descendants include all later Scottish monarchs ( except Edward Balliol whom Bruce loyalists would regard as a usurper ) and all British monarchs since the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
Smaller minorities include the Malays who descent from South East Asian settlers, and the Burghers, who are descendants of European colonists, principally from Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK.
Lords Temporal include appointed members ( life peers with no hereditary right for their descendants to sit in the house ) and ninety-two remaining hereditary peers, elected from among, and by, the holders of titles which previously gave a seat in the House of Lords.
For instance, descendants of the first reptiles include modern reptiles as well as birds.
Most of the classes listed are not " complete " taxa, meaning that they do not include all the descendants of the first representative of the group.
Medill's descendants include many prominent figures in American newspaper publishing.
Moses Mendelssohn's descendants include the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn and the founders of the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house.
Other descendants include Owen, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George, who was his grandson, and his son Robert ( the chairman of Lloyd George Management ).
Sponges are generally agreed, also, to not form a monophyletic group, in other words do not include all and only the descendants of a common ancestor, because Eumetazoa ( more complex animals ) are thought to be descendants of a subgroup of sponges.
Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well as from other countries in Southeast Asia and South America that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora.

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