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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom, occupying most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain.
England is named after the Angles, one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in Northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th centuries.
England comprises the central and southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain, plus offshore islands of which the largest is the Isle of Wight.
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 GENUKI: Kings of England - E
king of England (known as the Peaceful or Peaceable) was born in 944 and was the younger of the two sons of Edmund I.
Edred was of feeble health, and inclined to an ascetic life.
king of England, the son of Edgar, succeeded his brother, Edward the Martyr, in 979, and, for his want of vigour and capacity, was surnamed the Unready.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Edmund "of Woodstock" Prince Of ENGLAND [EARL OF KENT] was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Eleanor Princess Of ENGLAND [DUCHESS OF GUELDRES] was born on 8 Jun 1318 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Eleanor Princess Of ENGLAND was born in 1264 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
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 Edred - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Edred (?-955), king of the English, succeeded his brother Edmund I in 946.
Edred’s policies were often guided by English statesman and reformer...
The first unified government of England came with the conquest of the Danish in northern England by Edward the Elder.
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 England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Governor of New York 1674-1681, 1688, of New England 1686-1691, of Virginia 1692-1698, and of Maryland 1693-1694.
Hereafter the title was always associated with the direct heir to the throne of England and then Great Britain, and merges with the Dukedom of Cornwall, the Earldom of Carrick, the Hereditary Great Stewardship of Scotland, and the Lordship of the Isles as a subsidiary title of the Prince of Wales.
England emerges throughout the 9th century CE, as the Kingdom of Wessex became the pre-eminent Anglo-Saxon nation and, with the containment of the Scandinavian Kingdom of York by the end of the century, the only surviving English nation.
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 English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Edred.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Edred or Eadred, was the son of Edward the Elder by his third wife, Edgiva, daughter of Sieghelm, Ealdorman of Kent.
Edred was reported to be a small and slightly built man, who suffered from ill-health for most of his life, in the form of a wasting disease which sometimes rendered him unable even to eat.
Edred was buried amongst his ancestors of the House of Wessex at Winchester Cathedral.
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 EBK: Edred, King of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Edred was the second son of King Edward the Elder by his third wife, Edgith.
Initially, Edred received oaths of allegiance from the men of the North at Tanshelf; but, before the end of AD 947, they had taken on the Norseman, Eric Bloodaxe, as their king.
Dunstan was one of the King’s chief advisors and Edred delegated much of his authority to him in his latter years.
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 King Edred
Executive summary: King of England 946-55 AD Edred, or Aedred, King of the English, was the youngest son of Edward the Elder and his wife Eadgifu.
Archbishop Wulfstan seems to have been a center of disaffection in the north, and in 952 Edred caused him to be imprisoned in the castle of "Judanburh", while in the same year the king, in revenge for the slaying of Abbot Eadelm, slew many of the citizens of Thetford.
Edred died on the 23rd of November 955 at Frome, in Somersetshire, and was buried in the old minster at Winchester.
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 Edred of England
King Edred was born in about 923 AD, a son of King Edward the Elder by his third marriage.
However, Edred was a strongly religious man with terrible health (he could barely eat his food).
He died on November 23, 955, at Frome in Somerset, and was buried at Winchester.
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 Peterson Family - pafg313 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Edmund I, "The ENGLAND [Parents] was born in 923 in, Wessex, England.
Edward married Edgiva, Queen of ENGLAND in 919 in, Wessex, England.
Edgiva, married Edward I, "The ENGLAND in 919 in, Wessex, England.
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 GENUKI: Royalty Kings and Queens Index
James I. of England, and VI of Scotland.
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent.
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England.
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 Edred of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was a son of King Edward the Elder by his third marriage, to Edgiva, daughter of Sigehelm, Ealdorman of Kent.
However, Edred was a strongly religious man but in very poor health (he could barely eat his food).
He died on November 23, 955, at Frome in Somerset, and was buried in the Old Minster at Winchester.
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 Edred - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He succeeded his brother Edmund and was faced with invasions of Danish Northumbria by Norsemen from Ireland and by Eric Bloodaxe of Norway.
Edred finally reestablished control over Northumbria in 954, thus bringing to an end the last independent Scandinavian kingdom in England.
Edred, being sickly, left affairs to his friend Saint Dunstan, who allowed the Danes of England to live under their own laws.
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 EBK: Historical Chronology of Saxon England AD 899-953
He is succeeded by his son, Edward the Elder; but the latter is opposed by his cousin, Aethelwold, a son of the late King Aethlred I. Prince Aethelwold goes north and persuades the Vikings of York to accept him as their King, at the expense of their own Sigefrith.
Kings Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Morgan Mwynfawr of Morgannwg are compelled to accompany Aethelstan on his campaign against King Constantine II of Alba.
King Donald of Strathclyde is killed fighting the forces of King Edmund the Magnificent of England.
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 Edred of England - OrthodoxWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
923 - November 23, 955) was King of England from 946 until his death.
He referred to himself as "King of the Anglo-Saxons and Emperor of the whole of Britain." Edred was an extremely religious man, but suffered from poor health.
He was succeeded to the throne by his nephew, Edwy.
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 reagenealogy - pafn112 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Famed for expelling the Danish leader, Eric Bloodaxe from Northumbria in 947 and from England in 954.
Known as the first King of All England (827-836, according to Weis), he was forced into exile at the court of Charlemagne, by the powerful Offa, King of Mercia.
Egbert returned to England in 802 and was recognized as king of Wessex.
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 Rea Genealogy - pafn84 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Edgar was made King of Mercia and Northumbria in 957 and succeed to the throne of Wessex at his brother, Eadwig's, death in 959.
With this, Edgar was King of Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex (the three most powerful kingdoms in England at that time), simultaneously and could be considered the first ruler of a United England.
Some of his predecessors were Kings of All England by virtue of being King of Wessex and, at the same time, enjoying a temporary military ascendancy over the other kingdoms.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She was married to Ralph PAINE in England.
Edred Prince of England was born about 990 in Wessex, England.
She was married to Fiocha Fionn Ola King Of IRELAND [of White Oxen].
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Edred reigned in England between 946 and 955.
A century and a half after settling in Normandy, the Franco-Viking descendants were strong enough to conquer England in 1066.
Scandinavian traces are still apparent in the dialects of Scotland and northern England.
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 "The Unready ETHELRED II / Alfgifu GUNNARSSON
Although Ethelred paid tribute to the plundering Danes, Sweyn I (the Forkbeard), King of Denmark, invaded England in 1013 and proclaimed himself king.
Aethelred also required that each shire in England should contribute to the fleet of the realm for the purpose of holding off the invaders.
A truce was arranged between Canute and Edmund; Edmund was permitted to rule the south of England until his death later in the year, when it reverted to Canute.
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 Runa-Raven Press: Rarities
At the end of the page are books by Edred in other languages.
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s Edred Thorsson produced a significant volume of material which was produced in rather obscure Ásatrú or Odinist journals such as The Runestone in the USA and The Raven Banner in England.
Rune Might reveals, for the first time in the English language, the long hidden secrets of the German rune magicians who practiced their arts in the beginning of this century.
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 Edred of England
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923 –; 23 November 955) was King of England from 946 until his death.
He succeeded his brother, King Edmund I. Like both his elder brothers, Edred enjoyed military success over the Vikings.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Sweyn
The son of a Danish king, Sweyn 'Forkbeard' began conquering territory in England in 1003, effectively devastating much of southern and midland England.
The English nobility became so disillusioned with their existing king, Ethelred 'The Unready', that they acknowledged Sweyn as king in 1013.
Sweyn's reign was short, as he died in 1014, but his son Canute the Great soon returned and reclaimed control of England.
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 History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon king > Edred
History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon king > Edred
Like his successor, his brother Edmund I, Edred (reigned 946-55) also dealt with trouble from Danes in the north.
Edred brought up Edmund's sons, Edwy and Edgar, as his heirs, and they both became king in turn.
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Edmund of Langley - (1341-1402), a younger son of King Edward III of England
Edward IV of England - (1461-1470 and 1471-1483), English monarch
Eleanor of Aquitaine - (died 1204), wife of Henry II of England
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 Edred — FactMonster.com
Edred, being sickly, left affairs to his friend Saint
, who allowed the Danes of England to live under their own laws.
Wessex - Wessex, one of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England.
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 KINGS OF ENGLAND
KINGS OF ENGLAND - EGBERT TO EDGAR (828 - 975)
EGBERT, recognised as the first King of all England upon reducing the Heptarchy to his dominion 828; elected King of Wessex 802, m.
ATHELSTAN, King of England, Crowned at Kingston, 4th Sept. 925, b.
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 Rea Genealogy - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Aelfled (Elfleda) of Bernicia, Countess of Northumbria, b.1031 - Bernicia, Northumberland, England
Agatha von Brunswick, Princess of England, b.1018 - Braunschweig, Prussia
Allerton, Sarah b.1587 - Newbury, Berkshire, England or n.
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