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Æthelred's first name, composed of the elements æðele 'noble', and ræd 'counsel', [2] is typical of the compound names of those who belonged to the royal House of Wessex, and it characteristically alliterates with the names of his ancestors, like Æthelwulf 'noble-wolf', Ælfred 'elf-counsel', Eadweard 'rich-protection', and Eadgar 'rich-spear'.
Æthelred I (alt. Aethelred, Ethelred; Old English: Æthel-ræd, lit. 'noble counsel'; [ 1 ] 845/848 to 871) was King of Wessex from 865 until his death in 871. He was the fourth of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex , four of whom in turn became king.
When King Edward died in 924, Æthelstan initially faced opposition at the West Saxon court, but was accepted as king in Mercia. [ 43 ] After Æthelred's death in 911, Æthelflæd ruled as "Lady of the Mercians", but she did not inherit the Mercian territories of London and Oxford, which were taken by Edward.
Æthelred II once again attempted to broker peace with the Viking forces in 994, after heavy raiding had taken place throughout the year. [2]: 286 This new treaty (often referred to as II Æthelred) was made between Æthelred and three leaders of the Norwegian Viking armies, called Guthmund Steitason, Josteinn and Olaf Tryggvason (referred to as Anlaf in the original document).
The earliest Mercian king about whom definite historical information has survived is Penda of Mercia, Æthelred's father. [2] The larger neighbouring kingdoms included Northumbria to the north, recently united from its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira , East Anglia to the east, and Wessex , the kingdom of the West Saxons, to the south.
Wulfrun(a) (c. 935-c. 1005 [1]) was a Mercian noblewoman and landowner who held estates in Staffordshire. Today she is particularly remembered for her association with Hēatūn, Anglo-Saxon for "high or principal farm or enclosure", which she was granted in a charter by King Æthelred II (Æthelred the Unready) in 985, and where she endowed a collegiate church in 994.
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Æthelred is also referenced in Robert Asprin's 1981 comic fantasy novel "Myth Conceptions" as a fictitious author of the epigraph to Chapter 4: "If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success" - Ethelred the Unready