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Æthelred the Unready
Ethelredus II la
King of England
- Child of Edgar of England and Ælfthryth
- Married to Ælfgifu of York, Emma of Normandy
- Dated c. 967 CE – 23 April 1016 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 1014 CE – 23 April 1016 CE Monarch of England Succeeded Sweyn I of Denmark · Succeeded by Edmund II of England
Family
The family of Æthelred the Unready
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 22
Family 22
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Ælfthryth 10th century queen consort of England -
child of (child) Edgar of England King of the English (r. 959–975) -
of the house House of Wessex family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom - parent of (child) Ælfgifu third wife of Uhtred of Bamburgh
- parent of (child) Æthelstan Ætheling Anglo-Saxon royalty
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parent of (father) Alfred Aetheling Son of English king Æthelred II and his second wife Emma of Normandy; brother of Edward the Confessor - parent of (child) Eadgyth Peerage person ID=102401
- parent of (child) Eadred Ætheling born 901
- parent of (child) Eadwig Ætheling Anglo-Saxon royalty
- parent of (child) Ecgberht (?) Peerage person ID=102396
- parent of (child) Edgar Peerage person ID=102400
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parent of (father) Edmund II of England King of the English, Wessex dynasty - parent of (child) Edward Peerage person ID=102399
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parent of (father) Edward the Confessor Anglo-Saxon King of England from 1042 to 1066 - parent of (child) Goda of England English princess
- parent of (child) unknown daughter (?) Peerage person ID=102404
- parent of (child) unknown daughter2 (?) Abbess of Wherwell
- parent of (child) Wulfhild Peerage person ID=102403
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sibling of Edith of Wilton English nun -
sibling of Edward the Martyr King of the English (975-978) -
married to Emma of Normandy Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor - married to Ælfgifu of York first wife of Æthelred the Unready
Sources
Sources and evidence
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25 statements on this record
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- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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