Æthelred (; ang, Æþelræd ) or Ethelred () is an Old English personal name (a compound of '' æþele'' and '' ræd'', meaning "noble counsel" or "well-advised") and may refer to:

Anglo-Saxon England

* Æthelred and Æthelberht, legendary princes of Kent *

Æthelred of Mercia Æthelred (; died after 704) was king of Mercia from 675 until 704. He was the son of Penda of Mercia and came to the throne in 675, when his brother, Wulfhere of Mercia, died from an illness. Within a year of his accession he invaded Kent, w ...

(fl. 645–709), King of Mercia * Æthelred I (disambiguation), several kings *

Æthelred II of Northumbria Æthelred was king of Northumbria in the middle of the ninth century, but his dates are uncertain. N. J. Higham gives 840 to 848, when he was killed, with an interruption in 844 when Rædwulf usurped the throne, but was killed the same year fi ...

, King of Northumbria (fl. 854–862) * Æthelred II of East Anglia (fl. 870s) *

Æthelred Mucel Æthelred Mucel was an Anglo-Saxon noble from Mercia who was the father of Ealhswith, the wife of Alfred the Great. Æthelred witnessed several charters between 867 and 895; he may be the same man as an ealdorman called 'Mucel' who witnes ...

(fl. 840–895), father of King Alfred the Great's wife, Ealhswith *

Æthelred (archbishop) Æthelred (or Ethelred; died 30 June 888) was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Although one source states that he was Bishop of Wiltshire prior to his elevation to Canterbury, this has been shown to be false. Much of ...

(fl. 870–888), Archbishop of Canterbury *

Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (or Ealdorman Æthelred of Mercia; died 911) became ruler of English Mercia shortly after the death or disappearance of its last king, Ceolwulf II in 879. Æthelred's rule was confined to the western half, as ea ...

(fl. 881–911) *

Æthelred of Cornwall Æthelred was a medieval Bishop of Cornwall The Bishop of Cornwall was the bishop of a diocese which existed between about 930 and 1050. Nothing is known about bishops in the post-Roman British Kingdom of Cornwall, but by the mid-ninth cent ...

(fl. 1001), Bishop of Cornwall *

Æthelred the Unready Æthelred II ( ang, Æþelræd, ;Different spellings of this king’s name most commonly found in modern texts are "Ethelred" and "Æthelred" (or "Aethelred"), the latter being closer to the original Old English form . Compare the modern dial ...

(978–1016), King of England

Post-Conquest

Ethelred of Scotland Ethelred (died c. 1093 ''Edelret mac Maíl Coluim'' or ''Æthelred Margotsson'') was the son of King Malcolm III of Scotland (Gaelic Máel Coluim III) and his wife Margaret of Wessex, the third oldest of the latter and the probable sixth oldest ...

(fl. 1093), son of Malcolm III and Saint Margaret *

Aelred of Rievaulx Aelred of Rievaulx ( la, Aelredus Riaevallensis); also Ailred, Ælred, and Æthelred; (1110 – 12 January 1167) was an English Cistercian monk, abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death, and known as a writer. He is regarded by Anglicans an ...

(1110–1167), English writer, saint and abbot of Rievaulx *

Ethelred Taunton Ethelred Luke Taunton (17 October 1857 – 9 May 1907) was an English Roman Catholic priest and historical writer. Life Taunton was born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, the youngest son of Doctor Thomas Taunton of Rugeley, by his wife Mary, ...

(1857–1907), English Roman Catholic priest and historical writer *

Aethelred Eldridge Aethelred Eldridge (April 21, 1930 – November 15, 2018), born James Edward Leonard Eldridge in Monroe, Michigan, was an academic and avant-garde painter. He was associate professor at the Ohio University School of Art from 1957 until 2014 and is b ...

(1930-2018), American academic and painter

Anglo-Saxon England

Post-Conquest

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