Search Result:ethelred
Overview of noun ethelred
The noun ethelred has 2 senses
- Ethelred, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready -- (king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016))
- Ethelred, Ethelred I -- (king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871))