Eadred or Edred is an
Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from ''
ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ''
ræd'' "
counsel
A counsel or a counsellor at law is a person who gives advice and deals with various issues, particularly in legal matters. It is a title often used interchangeably with the title of ''lawyer''.
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". Notable people with the name include:
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Eadred (923–955), king of England
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Eadred (bishop) (died 1042), Bishop of Durham
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Eadred Lulisc (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
late 9th century), abbot of Carlisle
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Eadred Ætheling (died 1012), a son of King Æthelred the Unready
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Stephen Edred Flowers (born 1953), American occultist
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Edred John Henry Corner (1906–1996), English botanist and mycologist
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Edred Utomi (born 1991), Nigerian-American stage actor
See also
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Ealdred
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Adderstone
Adderstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Adderstone with Lucker, in the county of Northumberland, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 185.
History
The name "Adderstone" means 'Eadred's farm/settleme ...
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Eldridge (disambiguation) Eldridge is an English surname and may refer to:
People Surname
* A. D. Eldridge (1851–?), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Aethelred Eldridge (1930–2018), American painter and art professor
* Alexandra Eldridge ( ...
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Osred
{{given name, Eadred
Germanic masculine given names
Old English masculine given names
Masculine given names