|
Find more facts and information on our topic page about
Æthelred
|
æthelred
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Æthelred , d.871, king of Wessex (865-71), son of Æthelwulf and brother of Alfred . He succeeded his brother Æthelbert as king of Wessex and as overlord of Kent and possibly of East Anglia. Æthelred spent his short reign gathering forces to oppose the Danes, who occupied York (866) and ravaged much of England. Alfred was important as his second in command in a series of battles (870-71) and succeeded him in Apr., 871.
Find more facts and information related to the .
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Town and country: history buffs and nature lovers especially will be charmed by England's rural East Anglia. (Destination: Europe).
; The kingdom of East Anglia dissolved about 1,000 years ago...the public in spring and summer). East Anglia is the home of one of Europe's top...tend to stick to the major cities, East Anglia certainly should be recommended to...
Read more
|
|
English history thrives in East Anglia.(E)(Travel)
; ...This is Newmarket in Suffolk County, East Anglia. The horses are the pride of England...to experience some of the delights of East Anglia, Suffolk County in particular, one of...the eastern edge of the British Isles, East Anglia has changed little through the ages...
Read more
|
|
Radical East Anglia: Peter Clark celebrates some of the 'awkward squad' associated with eastern England.(TRAVEL TO THE PAST)
; East Anglia is different. It is not on the road to...been the second city of the kingdom but East Anglia missed out on the Industrial Revolution...Strike, 'the longest strike in history'. East Anglia was also the birthplace of perhaps England...
Read more
|
|
Letter is the spur to breathe new life into East Anglia branch
; The future of East Anglia branch looks bright after 35 members...kickstarted by a letter, sent out to all East Anglia members to see if there was enough...commitment and levels of interest in East Anglia to both the institute and the profession...
Read more
|
|
East Anglia `best site to dump N-waste'
; ...s nuclear waste should be dumped in East Anglia rather than near Sellafield in Cumbria...underground radioactive repository in East Anglia would be one-tenth of those likely to...and force it back up to the surface. East Anglia, in contrast, is flat and is one of...
Read more
|
|
|
Why aren't people snapping up country homes in East Anglia?
; ...property prices over the past decade East Anglia rises like the Matterhorn in 1988, a...speculator, you would surely be buying into East Anglia. So why aren't people snapping up country...300,000? The answer seems to be that East Anglia is a microcosm of the new property market...
Read more
|
|
When England was bewitched John Adamson is spellbound by an account of a brief but brutal outbreak of witch-hunting in 17th-century East Anglia
; ...suspected witches -- almost all of them from East Anglia - were imprisoned and eventually tried...1645-47? And why were they so localised to East Anglia -- most intensively, to north-east Essex...demonically possessed world of 1640s East Anglia -- of the motives and belief-systems...
Read more
|
|
"Short o" in East Anglia and New England.
; ...coat, whole, and home is recorded for East Anglia. It is definitely tempting to see a...resemblance between the two phenomena in East Anglia and New England. Further linguistic...favour of Kurath's linkage to northern East Anglia is as follows. In the case of both East...
Read more
|
|
|
East is Eden Flint cottages, sand dunes and acres of open space are luring more and more buyers to East Anglia. Caroline McGhie reports on the region's startling rise
; ...the country over the next five years. East Anglia may have been left behind for decades...of new homes at Strutt & Parker for East Anglia, has been organising seminars around...earners realised they could live in East Anglia, commute by train into Stratford and...
Read more
|
 "Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)")
|
East Anglia and Midlands have most immigrants.
; ...anywhere else in the UK. Home Office research has revealed that East Anglia is one of the most popular destinations for immigrants from...months of 2006, another 8,740 immigrants applied to work in East Anglia, second only to the Midlands region which saw 9,470 new applications...
Read more
|
For more facts and information,
see all related premium articles
Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses
|
Æthelred
...1016, king of England (978-1016), called Æthelred the Unready [Old Eng. unrœd =without...Edward the Martyr , whom he succeeded. Æthelred began his reign under a cloud of suspicion...1003) led by the Danish king Sweyn . Æthelred tried to defend his kingdom; in 1002...
Read more
|
|
|
Canute
...1013 that invaded England and forced Æthelred to flee to Normandy. When Sweyn died...England swore fealty to Canute, but on Æthelred's return from Normandy, Canute withdrew...divided England with Edmund Ironside , Æthelred's son. When Edmund died, late in 1016...
Read more
|
|
|
Rulers of England and Great Britain
...Æthelbert, 2d son of Æthelwulf, 860-65 Æthelred, 3d son of Æthelwulf, 865-71 Alfred...the Martyr), son of Edgar, 975-78 Æthelred (the Unready), younger son of Edgar, 978-1016 Edmund (Ironside), son of Æthelred, 1016 Canute, by conquest, 1016...
Read more
|
|
|
Edward the Confessor
d. 1066, king of the English (1042-66), son of Æthelred the Unready and his Norman wife, Emma. After the Danish conquest (1013-16) of England, Edward grew up at the Norman court, although...
Read more
|
|
|
Danegeld
...military expenditures. In England the tribute was first levied in 868, then in 871 by Alfred , and occasionally thereafter. Under Æthelred (965?-1016) it became a regular tax, and was collected by later rulers until the 12th cent., when it was converted into tallage...
Read more
|
