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Æthelred the Unready

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Horrible Histories Smashing Saxons Court of Historical Law Ethelred the Unready guilt via ordea

 

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Aethelred the Unready

 

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Richard Wilson's "Aethelred the Unready" Prologue

 

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Æthelred The Unready

 

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Aethelred the Unready of the House of Wessex's Folly, V1 -- FA (Big Schloss)

Æthelred II, known as the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death. His epithet does not derive from the modern word "unready", but rather from the Old English unræd ; it is a pun on his name, which means "well advised".
  • Personal 

  • Name 

  • Conflict with the Danes 

  • Battle of Maldon 

  • England begins tributes 

  • Renewed Danish raids 

  • St. Brice's Day massacre of 1002 

  • Invasion of 1013 

  • Death and burial 

  • Legislation 

  • Legacy 

  • Origin of the jury 

  • Marriages and issue