Eadred Ætheling (
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 ...
''Eadred Æþeling'') (died c. 1012) was the fourth of the six sons of King
Æthelred the Unready
Æthelred II ( ang, Æþelræd, ;Different spellings of this king’s name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form . Compare the modern diale ...
by his first wife
Ælfgifu Ælfgifu (also ''Ælfgyfu''; ''Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva'') is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ''ælf'' " elf" and ''gifu'' "gift".
When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she ...
. He witnessed charters between 993 and 1012 or 1013, but died before his father was forced to flee to Normandy in late 1013.
Simon Keynes, ''Æthelstan Ætheling'', Oxford Online DNB, 2004
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See also
*House of Wessex family tree
This is a list of monarchs of Wessex until AD 886. For later monarchs, see the List of English monarchs. While the details of the later monarchs are confirmed by a number of sources, the earlier ones are in many cases obscure.
The names are give ...
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10th-century births
1010s deaths
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