King, 979-1016

Reigned 979-1013 (deposed) and 1014-1016. In the face of Danish raids, he was forced to pay huge tributes (Danegeld) to the enemy. He was driven into exile by Sweyn but returned after his death. He died during Canute’s invasion of England. Burke says he died 1010. His tomb was lost when the old St. Paul’s was destroyed in the great fire of London.

AEthelred II, the Redeless, King of England, 979-1016; b. 968; d. 1016; m. (1) 985, Alfflaed, dau. of Thored. (G. E. Cokayne, “Complete Peerage,” Vol.s I-XII pt. 2, 1910-1959 - IV, 504, IX, 704. Generations 13-31; Oliver J. Thatcher, “A Short History of Mediaeval Europe,” New York, 1897, 321; Samuel R. Gardiner, “A Student’s History of England,” 1899, genealogical tables xxvii-xxxii, 216, 265, 286.)55