Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians

The ealdorman Æthelred (also Athelred, Ethelred, Ethered, † 911) was approximately 883-911 Vice - King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.

Life

About the origin and childhood of Æthelred is not known.

Æthelred the eldest daughter of King Alfred was with Aethelflaed been the Great of Wessex, who had just reached the marriageable age married. They had a daughter named Ælfwynn. With the progressive reconquest of the Danelaw by Alfred the Great Æthelred was returned to the liberated areas Mercia. His title was "Lord of Mercia ", and though endowed with great power, but he was under the suzerainty of the Confederate Wessex.

Æthelred brought the Welsh kings Howel ap Ris of Gleguising and the brothers remote mail and Brocmail ap Mouric of Gwent by several campaigns in such great distress that Brocmail King Alfred visited the Great and his reign and his protection subjugated. Alfred the Great drew 886 in London, and set his son, ealdorman Æthelred of Mercia, as a local governor in.

In the year 905 fell marauding Danes from East Anglia, Mercia and returned with rich booty home. The subsequent retaliation campaign led King Edward the Elder of Wessex, the brother Æthelreds on. Æthelred was 908, the destroyed city of Chester build ( Old English Legacester ) again. King Edward the Elder allied himself again with 909 Æthelred to a five-week campaign against the Danish Lindsey, where they brought in Bardney the remains of Saint Oswald of Northumbria in itself and led by Mercia.

In the battle of Tettenhall on 5 August 910 Æthelred may have been wounded, at least he died the following year. His widow Aethelflaed, a sister of Edward the Elder, ruled Mercia after almost eight years.

Source

• The Anglo - Saxon Chronicle in Project Gutenberg (English)
• Asser 's' Life of King Alfred " (English)
• Symeon of Durham, Translator: J. Stevenson: The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham. In: Church Historians of England, volume III, part II Seeley 's. In 1855. Retrieved on 3 October 2009.