1.22 - 14 Aethelred the Unready and the Rising Tide

The History of England

David Crowther

Europe, Queen, England, Medieval, Politics, Royal, History, Parliament, English, King, Modern, Early Modern, Monarchy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2011

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Aethelred's mother gets her son onto the throne at last. But it's not long before the disadvantages of kingship become clear, as the Danes begin to return with increasing force. Aethelred turned 18 in 983, and by 984 has sent his mother away ...

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1:25.0	Last week we heard about the circumstances in which one of England's most infamous kings came to the throne,
1:31.0	that is Ethelred the second, Ethelred the unready as he's known.
1:37.0	In 978 Ethelred came to the throne of probably the most organized and prosperous nation in Europe. By 1016 the year of his death
1:45.1	this kingdom had been comprehensively defeated and was under the rule of a foreign
1:49.7	king. So is Ether read the worst English king ever or simply the most misunderstood.
1:55.0	Not all the opinions from medieval sources are completely negative about Ethelred, but it is very close.
2:05.0	We must also bear in mind that pretty much everything written about Ethelred was retrospective,
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