Æthelred (; ang, Æþelræd ) or Ethelred () is an

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

personal name (a compound of '' æþele'' and '' ræd'', meaning "noble counsel" or "well-advised") and may refer to:

Anglo-Saxon England

Æthelred and Æthelberht Saints Æthelred and Æthelberht (also ''Ethelred'', ''Ethelbert'') according to the Kentish royal legend (attested in the 11th century) were princes of the Kingdom of Kent who were murdered in around AD 669, and later commemorated as saints and ...

, legendary princes of Kent * Æthelred of Mercia (fl. 645–709), King of Mercia * Æthelred I (disambiguation), several kings * Æthelred II of Northumbria, King of Northumbria (fl. 854–862) * Æthelred II of East Anglia (fl. 870s) * Æthelred Mucel (fl. 840–895), father of King Alfred the Great's wife, Ealhswith * Æthelred (archbishop) (fl. 870–888), Archbishop of Canterbury * Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (fl. 881–911) *

Æthelred of Cornwall Æthelred was a medieval Bishop of Cornwall. Æthelred was bishop about 1001 and died sometime after that.Powicke ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218 Citations References

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(fl. 1001), Bishop of Cornwall * Æthelred the Unready (978–1016), King of England

Post-Conquest

Ethelred of Scotland Ethelred (died c. 1093 ''Edelret mac Maíl Coluim'' or ''Æthelred Margotsson'') was the son of King Malcolm III of Scotland (Gaelic Máel Coluim III) and his wife Margaret of Wessex, the third oldest of the latter and the probable sixth oldest o ...

(fl. 1093), son of Malcolm III and Saint Margaret * Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167), English writer, saint and abbot of Rievaulx *

Ethelred Taunton Ethelred Luke Taunton (17 October 1857 – 9 May 1907) was an English Roman Catholic priest and historical writer. Life Taunton was born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, the youngest son of Doctor Thomas Taunton of Rugeley, by his wife Mary, d ...

(1857–1907), English Roman Catholic priest and historical writer *

Aethelred Eldridge Aethelred Eldridge (April 21, 1930 – November 15, 2018), born James Edward Leonard Eldridge in Monroe, Michigan, was an academic and avant-garde painter. He was associate professor at the Ohio University School of Art from 1957 until 2014 and is b ...

(1930-2018), American academic and painter

Anglo-Saxon England

Post-Conquest

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