ENGLAND, King Ethelred^{[1, 2]}

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• Name	ENGLAND, Ethelred
  Prefix	King
  Nickname	The Unready
  Birth	19 Mar 968	Wessex, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	23 Apr 1016	London, London, England   [2]
  Burial	23 Apr 1016	London, Middlesex, England
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  Person ID	I30824	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	ENGLAND, King Edgar ,   b. 7 Aug 943, Essex, Berkshire, England Essex, Berkshire, Englandd. 8 Jul 975, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 31 years)
  Mother	ELFRIDA, Queen Ealfthryth ,   b. 947, Devonshire, England Devonshire, Englandd. 17 Nov 1002, Wherwell, Hampshire, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	964	Essex, England
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , , Wessex, England.
  Family ID	F16750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	ENGLAND, Queen Alfgifu ,   b. 968, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 17 Nov 1002, Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire, England (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	985	Essex, England   [2]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , , Wessex, England. ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 9 Jun 1933, SLAKE.
  Children	7 sons and 4 daughters
  1. ENGLAND, Prince Athelstan ,   b. 986, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. Aft 25 Jun 1014, England (Age > 28 years)   2. ENGLAND, Egbert ,   b. 987, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1005, England (Age 18 years) + 3. ENGLAND, King Edmund II ,   b. 22 Jul 988, Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Great Britian Wessex, Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Great Britiand. 30 Nov 1016, London, Middlesex, England (Age 28 years)   4. ENGLAND, Eldred ,   b. 990, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1017, England (Age 27 years)   5. ENGLAND, Edwig ,   b. 991, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1017, England (Age 26 years)   6. ENGLAND, Edgar ,   b. 994, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1017, England (Age 23 years)   7. ENGLAND, Edward ,   b. 994, Essex, England Essex, England   8. ENGLAND, Edith ,   b. 995, Essex, England Essex, England + 9. ENGLAND, Princess Elfgifa ,   b. 997, Essex, England Essex, Englandd. 1097, Wessex, England (Age 100 years)   10. ENGLAND, Princess Wulfhild ,   b. 998, Essex, England Essex, England   11. ETHELRED Queen ,   b. 1000, Wherwell, Hampshire, England Wherwell, Hampshire, England
  Family ID	F6808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	NORMANDY, Queen Emma ,   b. 982, Normandy, France Normandy, Franced. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1002	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France.
  Children	2 sons and 1 daughter
  1. ENGLAND, Alfred ,   b. Abt 1002, , , Wessex, England Wessex, Englandd. 5 Feb 1037, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England (Age 35 years) + 2. ENGLAND, Edward I ,   b. Abt 1004, Islip, Oxfordshire, England Islip, Oxfordshire, Englandd. 5 Jan 1066, England (Age 62 years) + 3. ENGLAND, Countess Goda ,   b. Abt 1004, Wessex, England Wessex, Englandd. 10 Sep 1067, England (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F4531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  --Other Fields Ref Number: 227331549 Ref: Virginia Historical Genealogies by John Bennett Boddie 1. For Percy-Harris conection see chart Brennan's History of the House of Percy, Vo. 1, 169 2. For Drury-Walgrave-Harris see Brydges Collins Peerage, Vo. 4. p. 235-236. 3. For Stapleton-Calthorpe see the Complete Peerage, Vol. 7, p. 34 4. For Drury-Woodliffe see Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (1838), p. 169. 5. For Drury see chart Nichols Bibliotheca Topographica Brittannica, Vol. 5, p. 115 Ref: Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America 973 D2ah Vol. 2 - Anglo-Saxon King of England from 978-1016. The fact that he was called "the Unready" does not imply that he lacked energy or resource, but is a corruption of the Old English term "bad Councel," which is in reference to his misfortunes, or that he lacked counsel. Indeed, throughout his reign he displayed considerable vigor but it was generally misdirected. For he was impulsive, passionate, cruel, apt to lean on favorites and guided by motives of temporary expediency. Ethelred's reign was marked by bitter military struggles. A worthless favorite, named Aethelsine, appears to have exercised considerable influence over the young King and to have led him to commit and to sanction many acts of oppression. After negotiating a treaty with Richard II, Duke of Normandy (d. 1026), Ethelred married Richard's sister Emma (d. (1052). This marriage provided the basis for the subsequent Norman claim to the English throne. Although Ethelred paid tribute to the plundering Danes, Sweyn I (the Forkbeard), King of Denmark, invaded England in 1013 and proclaimed himself king. The invasion of the Danes became more pronounced during Aethelred's reign, and he was obliged to bribe the Danes. In 1014 Ethelred fled to Normandy but returned a few months later upon Sweyn's death. Sweyn's son and successor, Canute II, invaded the country a year later and, following Ethelred's death, became king of England. Aethelred also required that each shire in England should contribute to the fleet of the realm for the purpose of holding off the invaders. This act established a precedent among the English Kings. This line of descent, with the omission of many intervening links, is as follows: Cerdic, Egbert, Alfred, Ethelred the Unready. He had two sons: as extended on this family group report. Ancestry of Edgar Aetheling "The Stone of Scone" Rev. Craig 1707 Ref: SLC FHL 929.273 C844C According to A Short History of England by Edward Cheyney, p 121. The Stone of Scone, sometimes called the Stone of Destiny, measured 10 x 16 x 26 inches and weighs about 340 pounds. On each end is an iron ring. This was the stone (we are told) which Jacob used as a pillow when he had his famous dream. He called the stone Bethel -- God's House. Again at the same place, God spoke to Jacob saying, "I am the God of Bethel." Thus God associated himself with the stone. Jacob carried the stone to Egypt. (Perhaps this was when the iron rings were put in the ends to make the carrying easier.) In the exodus from Egypt the Israelites carried the stone during their forty years of wandering in the wilderness. When they needed water, the Lord told Moses to smite the rock. He did so and out came water. It is believed this stone was the rock, and it was then that the rock received the crack which it now has. At last the Stone was placed in the Temple at Jerusalem where it was used as the Coronation Seat for the kings of Israel, the last king being Zedekiah. In 578 B.C., Zedekiah and all of his people were captured except his beautiful daughter who was spirited away by a small group of people led by the prophet, Jeremiah, who carried with them a bell, an ark, David's harp and the Stone. They sought refuge in Ulster, Ireland at the Court of a King who was their kinsman. This king, their kinsman, was a descendant of Joseph's younger son, Ephraim to whom the Stone and God's Covenant had descended. Ephraim's descendant, Gatholus, was a prince and he had married Scota (for whom Scotland was later named) the daughter of Pharoah Rameses, II. (This Pharoah seemsto have had several names). Gatholus became a great explorer, his son, Iber, finally reaching the part of Ireland now known as Ulster. It was to Iber that Jeremiah took the daughter of the last king of Palestine and the Stone of Destiny. King Iber married his beautiful guest, so David's house which then had the stone, and Joseph's house to whom it had been bequeathed, were united. To both houses the Lord had made great promises. The stone was taken from Ulster, Ireland to Scone,Scotland, where it continued to be used as a coronation seat. There was a prophecy that wherever that Stone was, there the descendants of Jacob (now the kings of Scotland) would reign. In 1296 it was taken by King Edward to England and usedas the coronation seat for English kings, but in time a Scottish king (James) was sitting on the English throne. (Note: I believe I condensed this from two magazine articles, but the names of the magazines and some quotation marks were omitted in typing and I do not remember the source nor the sentences quoted. (Copied from "Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland" by Sir Thomas (?) of Learney, Lord Lyon, King of Arms. Pub. by W & A. K. Johnston and Q. W. Bacon, Ltd., Edina Works, Edinburgh.) The Bruce coat-of-arms represents the two kings of that great house. On it is a lion with a crown on his head and another around his neck. The crest is a mailed arm, the hand grasping a sceptre. The motto is "Fuimus" (We Have Been). Ancestry of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland: David I, "The Saint" and Henry, Prince of Scotland who died in 1152. BIRTH: Also shown as Born , , Wessex, England. DEATH: Also shown as Died London, Middlesex, England. BURIAL: Also shown as Buried St Paul, London, Middlesex, England. BIRTH: Also shown as Born , , Wessex, England. DEATH: Also shown as Died London, Middlesex, England. BURIAL: Also shown as Buried St Pauls Cathedral, London, Middlesex, England.

  
  

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  [S72] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM), (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998). [S617] Brƒderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), Tree #2243. Date of Import: Jan 23, 1998