Ethelred the Unready was thought of as a weak king of England in the 11th century. Ethelred gave the Vikings gold and land to stop them invading. This money was called Danegeld. But it didn’t ...

As Anglo-Saxon England faced conquests and apocalypse, Archbishop Wulfstan saw hope for the kingdom in a radical restructuring of society. Æthelred: Ready to Rule Æthelred the Unready was king of a ...

Both Tom Holland’s Athelstan and Levi Roach’s Æthelred the Unready are dominated by their respective subject’s struggles with the Vikings, the Scandinavian warriors who subjected England’s coastline ...

Forty days after he was crowned king of England ... of seizing power from King Ethelred II, who had ordered the slaughter of all Danes living in England in 1002 in what became known as the ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw land territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland. He was the first 'King of all ...

Emma of Normandy and Æthelred the Unready were married for 14 years before Æthelred the Unready died, leaving behind his partner and 3 children.

Area coroner for Cumbria, Kirsty Gomersal, received a curator’s report which stated that the six silver hammered coins dated back to the reign of King Ethelred II of England between AD978 to AD1016.

Succeeding the throne from his father Ethelred the Unready in April 1016 ... lavish spending habits and ruinous foreign wars, England’s finances were in a pretty poor state in the 1540s despite the ...

5 minute read Edward, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was born in Islip, Oxfordshire, sometime between 1002 and 1005AD, the eighth son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. He was driven into ...

Far from being ‘unready’ (an unfortunate byname, meaning ‘poorly counselled’), Æthelred was a more capable king than his reputation would have us believe, a theme taken up in the May issue of History ...