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Abt 968 - 1016 (~ 48 years)
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Name |
Aethelred II |
Prefix |
King |
Born |
Abt 968 |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
23 Apr 1016 [4, 5] |
Person ID |
I2543 |
Schuerman-Wood-Worden |
Last Modified |
24 Jun 2010 |
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Notes |
- "The Unready" (the "ill-advised"). King of England 978-1016. Attempted to buy off the invading Vikings but lost his kingship 1013-14 when the Danish king, Sweyn Forkbeard forced him into exile in Normandy. Recalled on Sweyn's death, but died a couple of years later as Cnut threatened invasion.
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Sources |
- [S103] Oxford Companion to British History, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 8, 1028.
- [S178] Anglo Saxon Chronicle, (Routlage, 1998), Many references.
- [S102] Henry Project (website), Baldwin, Stewart , (sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/henry.htm).
- [S139] Early Sources of Scottish History, Anderson, Alan Orr , (Ediburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1922, 2 vols.), DA744.A48., p. 545.
- [S135] Ancestral Roots of American Colonists, Weis, F. L., (8th ed., Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 2004), line 1:18.
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