Æthelred II (East Anglia)

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Coin of King Æthelred II of East Anglia

Æthelred II. (Also Eðelred ) was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia around 875 . There are no contemporary accounts of Æthelred's life. He is only known through coins. He presumably ruled as a subregulus (sub-king) of the Danish occupier Ivar Ragnarsson since 869/870.

literature

  • Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1 .

Web links

  • Æthelred in Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Keynes: Kings of East Anglia . In: Michael Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 508-509.
  2. ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings, Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , p. 174.
predecessor Office successor
Edmund the Martyr King of East Anglia
around 875 		Oswald
personal data
SURNAME Æthelred II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aethelred; Ethelred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of East Anglia
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century