King Aethelred the Unready

GPTKB entity

Properties (46)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Monarch
gptkbp:battle Battle of Maldon
gptkbp:birthYear 966
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Old_St_Paul's_Cathedral
gptkbp:children gptkb:Aethelred_II
gptkb:Edward_the_Confessor
gptkb:Aethelstan
gptkb:Godwin
gptkb:Edmund_Ironside
gptkb:Eadwig
gptkb:Ethelstan
gptkb:Aethelgifu
Eadred
Edgar
gptkbp:deathYear 1016
gptkbp:defeated gptkb:Sweyn_Forkbeard
gptkbp:dynasty gptkb:House_of_Wessex
gptkbp:father gptkb:King_Edgar
gptkbp:historicalContext gptkb:Danish_rule_in_England
gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_England
Viking invasions
the rise of the House of Knýtlinga
the_decline_of_Anglo-Saxon_power
gptkbp:historicalSignificance last_king_of_the_Anglo-Saxon_period
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label King Aethelred the Unready
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:the_Danelaw
heavy taxation
the establishment of a standing army
the Treaty of 1016
poor military decisions
conflict_with_the_Danes
marriage_to_Emma_of_Normandy
the_St._Brice's_Day_massacre
the_Treaty_of_1012
the_introduction_of_the_Danegeld_tax
gptkbp:migration 1013
gptkbp:mother Wulfrun
gptkbp:nickname the Unready
gptkbp:predecessor Edmund I
gptkbp:reign 50 years
1016
monarchy
966
gptkbp:respondsTo 1014
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Emma_of_Normandy
gptkbp:successor Edmund II