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Æthelred was succeeded by Cœnred son of Wulfhere, and both these kings are better known for their religious activities than anything else, but the king who succeeded them ( in 709 ), Ceolred, is said in a letter of Saint Boniface to have been a dissolute youth who died insane.
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Æthelred and was
When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.
It is possible that this arrangement was sanctioned by Alfred's father, or by the Witan, to guard against the danger of a disputed succession should Æthelred fall in battle.
However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.
This was in accordance with the agreement that Æthelred and Alfred had made earlier that year in an assembly at Swinbeorg.
Thorkell the Tall was appalled at the brutality of his fellow raiders, and switched sides to the English king Æthelred the Unready following Ælfheah's death.
Their next target was Mercia where King Burgred, aided by his brother-in-law King Æthelred of Wessex, drove them off.
Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II ( circa 968 – 23 April 1016 ), was king of England ( 978 – 1013 and 1014 – 1016 ).
Æthelred was only about 10 ( no more than 13 ) when his half-brother Edward was murdered.
Æthelred was not personally suspected of participation, but as the murder was committed at Corfe Castle by the attendants of Ælfthryth, it made it more difficult for the new king to rally the nation against the military raids by Danes, especially as the legend of St Edward the Martyr grew.
In 1003, King Sweyn invaded England and in 1013, Æthelred fled to Normandy and was replaced by Sweyn, who was also king of Denmark.
Edward, and his brother-in-law Æthelred of ( what was left of ) Mercia, began a programme of expansion, building forts and towns on an Alfredian model.
Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, were buried in the priory, and their nephew, King Æthelstan, was a major patron of Oswald's cult.
Within a few weeks, however, Sweyn died and Æthelred was called back to England by the witan.
Æthelred did so, and was reinstated as King of England.
In 1009 Wulfnoth 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 storm.
In 1035, the throne of England was reportedly claimed by Alfred Ætheling, younger son of Emma of Normandy and Æthelred the Unready, and half-brother of Harthacnut.
She was Queen consort of England by successive marriages: first as second wife to Æthelred the Unready of England ( 1002 – 16 ); and then second wife to Cnut the Great of Denmark ( 1017 – 35 ).
Æthelred was able to hold out against Cnut in London, but in April 1016 Æthelred died, as did Edmund in November.
Edward the Confessor, (; ; 1003 – 05 to 4 or 5 January 1066 ), son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, was one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England and is usually regarded as the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.
Æthelred and succeeded
In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.
When Æthelflæd died in 918, Ælfwynn, her daughter by Æthelred, succeeded as ' Second Lady of the Mercians ', but within six months Edward had deprived her of all authority in Mercia and taken her into Wessex.
Æthelred died in April 1016, and he was succeeded by Edward's older half brother Edmund Ironside, who carried on the fight against Sweyn's son, Cnut.
Æthelberht died in 865 and was succeeded by his brother Æthelred.
On 23 April 871, King Æthelred died and Alfred succeeded him as King of Wessex.
Wulfhere was succeeded as King of Mercia by his brother, Æthelred.
Æthelred, Wulfhere's brother, succeeded to the throne, and reigned for nearly thirty years.
Æthelred died in 911 and Æthelflæd succeeded him as ' Lady of the Mercians ', but she did not inherit the Mercian territories of London and Oxford, which were taken by Edward.
He was a son of the Mercian king Wulfhere, whose brother Æthelred succeeded to the throne in 675 on Wulfhere's death.
Wulfhere was succeeded on his death ( in 675 ) by his brother Æthelred, Coenred's uncle, possibly because Coenred was too young to rule.
In 674 he was succeeded by his brother, Æthelred, who was less militarily active than Wulfhere had been along the frontier with Wessex, though the West Saxons did not recover the territorial gains Wulfhere had made.
When Æthelred died in 871, his sons were too young to be king, and he was succeeded by his younger brother, Alfred the Great.
Æthelred returned briefly and unsuccessfully until 1016, at which time he was succeeded by Forkbeard's son Knut, who granted the Royal Manor of Hitchin to his second in command, Earl Tovi.
All sources agree that Eanred was eventually succeeded by his son, Æthelred.
From AD 874 – 879 the western half of Mercia was ruled by Ceowulf II, who was succeeded by Æthelred.
In April Æthelred died, to be succeeded by Alfred.
When the succession became an issue late in Edgar's reign, Æthelwold supported the claim of Æthelred, the son of his major patron, Ælfthryth, whereas Dunstan and Oswald appear to have supported Edgar's son by an earlier wife, Edward the Martyr, who succeeded to the throne.
Æthelred and by
In 868, Alfred is recorded as fighting beside Æthelred in an unsuccessful attempt to keep the invading Danes led by Ivar the Boneless out of the adjoining Kingdom of Mercia.
* Danegeld is paid by Æthelred the Unready to prevent Viking raids against England.
Edward the Confessor was the seventh son of Æthelred the Unready, and the first by his second wife Emma, sister of Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Following Sweyn's seizure of the throne in 1013, Emma fled to Normandy, followed by Edward and Alfred, and then by Æthelred.
Effective rule required keeping on terms with the three leading earls, but loyalty to the ancient house of Wessex had been eroded by the period of Danish rule, and only Leofric was descended from a family which had served Æthelred.
She sponsored the Enconium Emmae Reginae, a work which eulogised her and attacked Harold, especially for arranging the murder of her son by Æthelred, Alfred Atheling, in 1036.
In 1041 he invited his half-brother Edward the Confessor ( his mother Emma's son by Æthelred the Unready ) back from exile in Normandy and probably made him his heir.
In 1036, Ælfred Ætheling, Emma's son by the long-dead Æthelred, returned to the kingdom from exile in the Duchy of Normandy with his brother Edward the Confessor, with some show of arms.
In early 1016 the army assembled by Edmund dispersed when Æthelred did not appear to lead it, probably due to illness.
In about 867, Æthelred effectively established a common currency between Wessex and Mercia by adopting the Mercian type of lunette penny, and coins minted exclusively at London and Canterbury then circulated in the two kingdoms.
The Queen Dowager certainly supported the claims of her son Æthelred, aided by Bishop Æthelwold ; and Dunstan supported Edward, aided by his fellow archbishop Oswald.
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