Ethelred the Unready

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Ethelred the Unready - king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)

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Coun Nick Cott, the Lib Dems' deputy leader, said on Monday evening: "It seems Theresa May is vying with Neville Chamberlain and Ethelred the Unready for being the worst leader this country has ever had.

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The 5251 coins, many from the reigns of Ethelred the Unready (978-1016 AD) and King Canute (1016-1035 AD), were in a lead box buried 2ft underground.

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Now, renewed Viking raids threatened the independence of England, ruled as it was by a weak king, Ethelred the Unready. But if he was prepared to pay o the invaders with Danegeld, his people were not so feeble, as was shown by the men of Essex.

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So fierce were these pagan Norsemen and so utterly destructive in their murder, mayhem, pillage, and plunder that King Ethelred the Unready, a weak and irresolute monarch, decided to buy them off rather than fight them.

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Ethelred the Unready was one of the seven Saxon kings reputedly crowned here.

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Archaeologists analysing wound marks on the bones believe they date from 1002 AD when King Ethelred the Unready ordered a massacre of all Danes (Vikings) in England.

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His very name recalls Ethelred the Unready, the ineffective king who ruled Britain when it was invaded by the Danes in 980 ("Ethelred").