Edred of England
Also known as Eadred, king of the English, King Eadred, Eadræd, Edred, king of the English, Eadred the Weak-in-the-Feet, Edred, king of England, Eadred, King Edred
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. When his elder brother, Edmund I, was killed in 946, Edmund's two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, were young children, so Eadred became king. He suffered from ill health in the last years of his life and died in his early thirties, having never married. He was succeeded in turn by his nephews, Eadwig and Edgar.
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Eadred was King of the English from 946 to 955, becoming monarch after his elder brother Edmund I was killed and his young nephews were deemed too young to rule. He died in his early thirties without marrying or producing heirs, and was eventually succeeded by those same nephews, Eadwig and Edgar.
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17 sectionsContents
- Background
- Family and early life
- Reign
- Battle for control of Northumbria
- Administration
- Charters
- Coinage
- Religion
- Learning
- Eadred's will
- Illness and death
- Assessment
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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. When his elder brother, Edmund I, was killed in 946, Edmund's two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, were young children, so Eadred became king. He suffered from ill health in the last years of his life and died in his early thirties, having never married. He was succeeded in turn by his nephews, Eadwig and Edgar.
Eadred's elder half-brother Æthelstan inherited the kingship of England south of the Humber in 924, and conquered the south Northumbrian Viking kingdom of York in 927. Edmund and Eadred both inherited kingship of the whole kingdom, lost it shortly afterwards when York accepted Viking kings, and recovered it by the end of their reigns. In 954, the York magnates expelled their last king, Erik Bloodaxe, and Eadred appointed Osullf, the Anglo-Saxon ruler of the north Northumbrian territory of Bamburgh, as the first ealdorman of the whole of Northumbria.