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ethelred
Alternative clues for the word ethelred
- King of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred
- King of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Saint Edward the Martyr was murdered
- Unready king
- Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871)
- Edward the Confessor's father
- He struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)
- The Unready
- King of England: 978–1016
Word definitions for ethelred in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Anglo-Saxon masc. given name, Old English Æðelræd , literally "noble counsel," from æðele "noble" (see atheling ) + ræd , red "advice" (see read (v.)).
Usage examples of ethelred.
He tried mind over matter and went through the Kings and Queens of England since the year 802: Egbert, Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred, Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund I, Edred, Edwy, Edgar, Edward II the Martyr but he gave up on the Saxons and Danes, unable to remember whether Harold Harefoot ruled alone or jointly with Hardicanute in 1037.
Sir Ethelred, that so far I have had no opportunity to give you assurances of any kind.
But he kept his head, and at the end of the time mentioned above he broke off with a sudden conclusion, which, reproducing the opening statement, pleasantly surprised Sir Ethelred by its apparent swiftness and force.
Sir Ethelred, that strictly speaking we know nothing positively - as yet.
Sir Ethelred shifted one hand under his coat tails, and tilting back his head, looked at him steadily.
For the rest, Sir Ethelred, the indignation of this man Verloc had left nothing in doubt - nothing whatever.
Sir Ethelred, in a house of bad repute called Continental Hotel, closeted in a room which by-the-by I took for the night.
It sounds an extravagant way of putting it, Sir Ethelred, but his state of dismay suggested to me an impulsive man who, after committing suicide with the notion that it would end all his troubles, had discovered that it did nothing of the kind.
King Ethelred, who came of the long line of native English kings, had been plagued by Viking raids, and they came to a climax in force when Knut the young son of the King of Denmark invaded England.
Emma of course remained in England, but the other survivors of the English royal house, including her own children by Ethelred, were sent into exile and scattered over Europe.
At the age of about thirty-eight, he was the only male survivor of all the seventeen children of Ethelred and Knut.
His great-aunt Emma had been the wife of Ethelred and Knut and mother of Edward, and that was his only remote relationship with the royal house of England.