Eadred Ætheling

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Eadred Ætheling
Diedc. 1012
HouseHouse of Wessex
FatherÆthelred the Unready
MotherÆlfgifu of York

Eadred Ætheling (Old English Eadred Æþeling) (died c. 1012) was the fourth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu.[1] He witnessed charters between 993 and 1012 or 1013,[2] but died before his father was forced to flee to Normandy in late 1013.[3]

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  1. ^ M. K. Lawson, Edmund II, Oxford Online DNB, 2004
  2. ^ "Eadred 1". Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
  3. ^ Simon Keynes, Æthelstan Ætheling, Oxford Online DNB, 2004

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