Eadred. Eadred was King of the English from 946 until his death.
He was the son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent, and a grandson of Alfred the Great. Eadred came to the throne following the assassination of his older brother, Edmund I. The chief achievement of his reign was to bring the Kingdom of Northumbria under total English control, which occurred with the defeat and expulsion of Eric Bloodaxe in 954.
Eadred died at the age of 32 having never married, and was succeeded by his 15-year-old nephew, Eadwig. Eadred was a son of Edward the Elder by his third marriage, to Eadgifu, daughter of Sigehelm, ealdorman of Kent.
He succeeded his elder brother King Edmund I, who was stabbed to death at Pucklechurch, on St Augustine's Day, 26 May 946. The same year, on 16 August, Eadred was consecrated by Archbishop Oda of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames, where he appears to have received the submission of Welsh rulers and northern earls.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 946 records that Eadred reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted. Nevertheless, Eadred soon faced a number of political challenges to the West-Saxon hegemony in the north. Unfortunately, there are some notorious difficulties with the chronology of the events described in the historical sources, but it is clear that there
He was the son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent, and a grandson of Alfred the Great. Eadred came to the throne following the assassination of his older brother, Edmund I. The chief achievement of his reign was to bring the Kingdom of Northumbria under total English control, which occurred with the defeat and expulsion of Eric Bloodaxe in 954.
Eadred died at the age of 32 having never married, and was succeeded by his 15-year-old nephew, Eadwig. Eadred was a son of Edward the Elder by his third marriage, to Eadgifu, daughter of Sigehelm, ealdorman of Kent.
He succeeded his elder brother King Edmund I, who was stabbed to death at Pucklechurch, on St Augustine's Day, 26 May 946. The same year, on 16 August, Eadred was consecrated by Archbishop Oda of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames, where he appears to have received the submission of Welsh rulers and northern earls.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 946 records that Eadred reduced all the land of Northumbria to his control; and the Scots granted him oaths that they would do all that he wanted. Nevertheless, Eadred soon faced a number of political challenges to the West-Saxon hegemony in the north. Unfortunately, there are some notorious difficulties with the chronology of the events described in the historical sources, but it is clear that there
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