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    Æthelred II (Old English: Æþelræd, pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the...
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  • Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor. She married firstly Drogo of Mantes, count of the...
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    known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of...
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    Emma of Normandy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    became the English, Danish, and Norwegian queen through her marriages to the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and the Danish king Cnut the Great....
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  • St Brice's Day massacre (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes within England on 13 November 1002, on the order of King Æthelred the Unready of England. The...
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  • 970 – 1002) was the first wife of Æthelred the Unready, King of the English; as such, she was Queen of the English from their marriage in the 980s until her...
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    the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As...
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  • Æthelred is also the subject of Richard Edward Wilson's Æthelred the Unready, a comical one-act opera composed in 1992. He is also referenced in the Sid...
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    Wantage Code (redirect from III Æthelred)
    Æthelred, ed./trans. Robertson, pp. 64–65. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Williams, Æthelred the Unready, p. 56. Neff, "Elements", p. 286. Roach, Æthelred...
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  • 927. The disastrous reign of Æthelred the Unready ended in Danish conquest in 1014. Æthelred and his son Edmund Ironside attempted to resist the Vikings...
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