Eadred or Edred is an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name, from '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' ræd'' "

counsel A counsel or a counsellor at law is a person who gives advice and deals with various issues, particularly in legal matters. It is a title often used interchangeably with the title of ''lawyer''. The word ''counsel'' can also mean advice given ...

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Eadred Eadred (also Edred, – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 26 May 946 until his death in 955. He was the younger son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent, Eadgifu, and a grandson of Alfred the Great. His elder b ...

(923–955), king of England * Eadred (bishop) (died 1042), Bishop of Durham *

Eadred Lulisc Eadred Lulisc or Eadred of Carlisle () is the abbot of Carlisle recorded by the ''Historia de Sancto Cuthberto''. The ''Historia'' gives the abbot central place in the election of Guthred as king of Northumbria by the Viking army based in Yorksh ...

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fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

late 9th century), abbot of Carlisle *

Eadred Ætheling Eadred Ætheling (Old English ''Eadred Æþeling'') (died c. 1012) was the fourth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready by his first wife Ælfgifu. He witnessed charters between 993 and 1012 or 1013, but died before his father was forced ...

(died 1012), a son of King Æthelred the Unready * Stephen Edred Flowers (born 1953), American occultist *

Edred John Henry Corner Edred John Henry Corner FRS (12 January 1906 – 14 September 1996) was an English mycologist and botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1929–1946) and Professor of Tropical Botany at the Un ...

(1906–1996), English botanist and mycologist * Edred Utomi (born 1991), Nigerian-American stage actor

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