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Emma and Æthelred's marriage ended with Æthelred's death in London in 1016. Æthelred's oldest son from his first marriage, Æthelstan Ætheling, had been heir apparent until his death in June 1014. Emma's sons had been ranked after all of the sons from Æthelred's first wife, the eldest surviving of whom was Edmund Ironside. [10]
Emma of Normandy Ælfred Æþeling ( c. 1012–1036), was one of the eight sons of the English king Æthelred the Unready . He and his brother Edward the Confessor were sons of Æthelred's second wife Emma of Normandy . [ 1 ]
Æthelred's wife, Queen Emma, later visits her now bedridden husband, who warns her that London needs to be defended. Emma sends her step-son Prince Edmund, the heir to the throne of England, to seek aid from the ealdorman of Mercia, Eadric Streona. Edmund is successful in convincing Streona to supply Mercian soldiers to help repel the Vikings ...
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die ending explained. The movie continues The Last Kingdom story with more turmoil for Uhtred from the offset as King Edward dies and his widow Eadgifu and ...
In the last years of the ninth century, three ealdormen ruled Mercia under Æthelred. Æthelflæd's maternal uncle, Æthelwulf, controlled western and possibly central Mercia, while the south and east were ruled by Æthelfrith, the father of Æthelstan Half-King. Alhhelm was responsible for the lands bordering the northern Danelaw.
According to the Annals of Winchester and Florence of Worcester, King Edward the Confessor's mother, Emma, and his wife Edith were both confined for a period at Wherwell, but it seems likely that this assertion is confused and that Emma was never sent to Wherwell.
Æthelred is also featured in the historical novel A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England (2004, also published as The Forever Queen) by Helen Hollick. The protagonist is his wife Emma of Normandy. The novel opens with the wedding of 13-year-old Emma to Æthelred, a 34-year-old man with a grown son of his own.
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