King Of England, Ethelred II The Redeless

Birth Name King Of England, Ethelred II The Redeless 1a 1b
Gramps ID I21870
Gender male
Age at Death 48 years, 3 months, 22 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E21281] 968    
1c 1d
Death [E21282] 1016-04-23 London  
1e 1f
Burial [E21283]   St. Pauls Cathedral  
1g 1h

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father King of England, Edgar the Peaceful [I4951]943975-07-08
Mother , Elfrida [I7447]9451000
         King Of England, Ethelred II The Redeless [I21870] 968 1016-04-23

Families

    Family of King Of England, Ethelred II The Redeless and , Alfflaed [F9259]
Married Wife , Alfflaed [I21871] ( * about 968 + 1002 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E31094] 985    
1i
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
King Of England, Edmund Ironside [I21868]9891016-11-30

Narrative

[MARSHALL.FTW]

SOURCE NOTES:
DeVajay, Szabolcs, Agatha, Mother of Saint Margaret Queen of Scotland,
Duquesne Review, vol 7 no 2, Spring 1962, p71-87.

Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of
William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969. LDS Film#1738313 item#5

Moriarty, George Andrews, Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III And Queen
Philippa. Salt Lake: Mormon Pioneer Genealogical Society, 1985. LDS
Film#0441438. nypl#ARF-86-2555.

Paget, Gerald, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of
Wales. London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1977. Nypl ARF+ 78-835.

Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge:
University Press, 1952. Chatham 940.1PRE.

Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Euroopaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte
der europaischen Staaten, New Series, Marburg: J.A. Stargardt, 1978-.

Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New
York: Facts on File Publications, 1983.

Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical
Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975. Rutgers Alex CS4.W33.

Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John
Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9.

Weis, Frederick L, Magna Charta Sureties 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna
Charta and Some of Their Descendants. 4th Ed. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1991.

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988.

Wurts, John S., Magna Charta: The Pedigrees of the Barons, Philadelphia, PA:
Brookfield Publishing Co, 1942.
RESEARCH NOTES:
King of Anglo Saxons 978-1016 [Ref: Holloway p18]
King of England 979-1016 [Ref: Weis AR #1] 978-1013 & 1014-1016 [Ref: Tapsell
p175]

Apr 14 979: crowned at Kingston [Ref: Paget p7]

1013: fled from the Danes to Normandy [Ref: Paget p7]

Feb 1014: restored as King of England [Ref: Paget p7]

epithet "The Unready" which is usually assigned to him is a mistranslation of
a word which properly means the Rede-less, the man without counsel. [Ref:
Wurts p177]

entirely without the qualities which befit a king [Ref: Wurts p177]

reign interrupted in 1013 by Sweyn (Sven Forkbeard of Denmark); regained
throne in 1014 [Ref: Tapsell p175]

1013: fled from the Danes to Normandy [Ref: Paget p7]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: [Ref: Paget p135, Weis AR #1, Weis MC #161] abt 968 [Ref: ES II #78,
Moriarty p31, Paget p7], parents: [Ref: DeVajay p85, Holloway p18, Moriarty
p31, Paget p7, Watney #879, Weis AR #1, Weis MC #161], father: [Ref: CMH p382,
Moriarty p252]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: [Ref: ES II #78, ES II #79, Moriarty p31, Paget p135, Paget p8, Watney
#740, Watney #879] 1016 [Ref: DeVajay p85, Moriarty p11, Moriarty p252, Wagner
#45, Weis AR #1, Weis MC #161], place: [Ref: Moriarty p31, Paget p8], note:
[Ref: Wurts p177]
SOURCE NOTES:
place: [Ref: Paget p8], note: [Ref: Wurts p177]

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
AFN ES:II-78, AR:1-19, MC:161-5, B19R-5C
 

Pedigree

  1. King of England, Edgar the Peaceful [I4951]
    1. , Elfrida [I7447]
      1. King Of England, Ethelred II The Redeless
        1. , Alfflaed [I21871]
          1. King Of England, Edmund Ironside [I21868]

Ancestors

Source References

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