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King
Ethelred of Wessex (
Old English:
Æþelræd) (c.
840 –
April 23,
871) was the fourth son of King
Ethelwulf of Wessex, and an older brother of
Alfred the Great. He is sometimes referred to as King Ethelred I of
England, but is is open to question whether he should be regarded as a king of England, since in his time the English were still divided into a number of kingdoms, not all of which recognised him as overlord (for example
Mercia).
He succeeded his brother,
Ethelbert, as King of
Wessex and
Kent in 865
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Aethelwold being the elder and
Aethelhelm being the younger. Ethelred wasn't able to control the increasing
Danish raids which devastated England. On
January 4,
871 at the
Battle of Reading, Ethelred suffered a crushing defeat, although he did hand the Danes a
Pyrrhic victory. Soon after, however, Ethelred was able to re-form his army in time to win a stunning victory at the
Battle of Ashdown. However, he suffered another defeat on
January 22 at the
Battle of Basing and was killed at the
Battle of Merton on
April 23,
871.
Ethelred is buried at
Wimborne in
Dorset. Following his death, he was popularly regarded as a
saint, but never
canonised. He was succeeded by his brother, King
Alfred the Great. (See
House of Wessex family tree.)
Ethelred isn't to be confused with the later king
Ethelred the Unready.
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