904. ETHELRED II "The Unready"33 (EDGAR "The Peaceful"34, EDMUND I "The Magnificent"35, EDWARD I "The Elder"36, ALFRED "The Great"37, ETHELWULF ("Noble Wolf")38, EGBERT39, EAHLMUND40, EAFA41, EOPPA42, INGILD43, CENRED44, CEOWALD45, CUTHA46, CUTHWINE47, (Ceolin)48 CAEELIN, CYNRIC49 , CERDIC50)(658) was born about 968. ETHELRED died 23 APR 1016 in London, England, at 47 years of age. His body was interred in St.Paul's Cathedral, London, England.

He married twice. He married Elflaed about 985. Elflaed was the daughter of Thored and unknown. Elflaed died 1003. He married Emma "The Flower of Normandy". Emma was the daughter of Richard I "The Fearless" 3rd Duke of Normandy and Gunnor deCREPON. Emma died 1052.

It was in ETHELRED II's reign that the battle of Maldon (celebrated in the poem, and in the lay The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son by J.R.R. Tolkien) took place in 991. King of England 978-1016; deposed by the Danes 1013; restored 1014 on the death of King Sweyn Forkbeard.

ETHELRED II "The Unready" and Elflaed had the following children:

child + 905 i. Elfgifu32 .

child + 800 ii. EDMUND II "Ironside" was born 989.

child 906 iii. Athelstan. Athelstan died about 1012.

child 907 iv. Egbert. Egbert died about 1005.

child 908 v. Edred. Edred died about 1012.

child 909 vi. Edwy. Edwy died 1017.

child 910 vii. Edward. Edward died before 1004.

child 911 viii. Edgar. Edgar died about 1008.

child 912 ix. Eadgyth (Edith). She married twice. She married Edric Streona. She married Thorkel Havi.

child 913 x. Wulfhild. She married Ulfcytel.

ETHELRED II "The Unready" and Emma "The Flower of Normandy" had the following children:

child 914 xi. Alfred(659). Alfred died 1035 in the monastery at Ely. Said to have been blinded by henchmen of Earl Godwin.

child 915 xii. Goda. She married twice. She married Dreux of the Vexin. (Additional notes for Dreux of the Vexin(660)) Dreux died 1035. She married Eustace II of BOULOGNE. Eustace(661) is the son of Eustace I of BOULOGNE and Maud of LOUVAIN.

child 916 xiii. EDWARD III "The Confessor"(662) was born in Islip, Oxfordshire about 1004. EDWARD died 5 JAN 1066 in Westminster, at 61 years of age. His body was interred 6 JAN 1066 in Westminster Abbey. He married Edith (Aldgyth) GODWINSON 10 JAN 1045. Edith was the daughter of Godwin and Gytha of Denmark. Edith died 18 DEC 1075 in Winchester. Her body was interred in Westminster Abbey. King of England 1042-1066; canonized 1161.

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