Ethelred II "The Unready" King Of ENGLAND^[1]

Abt 968 - 1016  (~ 48 years)

• Name	Ethelred II "The Unready" King Of ENGLAND
  Nickname	The Unready
  Birth	Abt 968	Wessex, England
  Gender	Male
  AFN	B19R-5C
  Relationship (J,M&L)	Relationship (J,M&L)
  	32nd Great-grandparent
  Name	Aethelred II "The Unready" Of WESSEX
  Name	The Unready
  _UID	41EC8E7EDABD4F20A2C61747ACB386F3DDCA
  Death	23 Apr 1016	London, Middlesexshire, England
  Burial	St Paul's, London, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I10694	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	Edgar "The Peacable" King Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 943, , Wessex, England d. 8 Jul 975, , Wessex, England (Age ~ 32 years)
  Mother	Elfrida (Elfthryth) Queen Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 947, Of, Devonshire, England d. 1000 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	964	, Wessex, England
  Family ID	F5357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Queen Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 968, Of, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 985	Of, Wessex, England
  Children	1. Athelstan Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 986, Of, Wessex, England d. 1016, , England (Age ~ 30 years)   2. Egbert Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 987, Of, Wessex, England d. Abt 1005, , England (Age ~ 18 years)   3. Edmund II "Ironside" King Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 988, Of, Wessex, England d. 30 Nov 1016, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 28 years)   4. Edred Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 990, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown   5. Edwig Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 991, Wessex, England d. 1017, , England (Age ~ 26 years)   6. Edward Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 992, Of, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown   7. Edgar Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 994, Of, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown   8. Edith Princess Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 995, Of, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown   9. Elfgifu Princess Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 997, Wessex, England d. Aft 1040 (Age ~ 44 years)   10. Wulfhild Princess Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 998, Of, Wessex, England d. Yes, date unknown   11. Miss Ethelred Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1001, Of, Wherewell, Hampshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Emma Princess Of NORMANDY,   b. Abt 982, Normandie (Normandy), France d. 6 Mar 1051-1052, , Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	1002	Of Normandie, France
  Children	1. Alfred Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1002, , Wessex, England d. Abt 1036, , England (Age ~ 34 years)   2. Edward III "The Confessor" King Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1004, , Islip, Oxfordshire, England d. 5 Jan 1065-1066, , London, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 62 years)   3. Goda (Godgifu) Princess Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1004, Of, Wessex, England d. Abt 1055, , England (Age ~ 51 years)   4. Ingelric "The Saxon" Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1006, Of St. Martin`s, -Le Grand, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F5360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of seven following the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters. For the rest of Ethelred's rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became a posthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Church transformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered the massacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery. Not being an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke's daughter Emma) and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied through a tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 was dismissive: 'in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as it pleased'. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London. In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016. Source: lorenfamily.com

  
  

• Sources

  [S397] J.K. Loren Dec 8 2003, J. K. Loren.