Definitions for ethelred I
ethelred i

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1. Ethelred, Ethelred Inoun

   king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871)

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1. ethelred I

   Æthelred I (alt. Aethelred, Ethelred; Old English: Æthel-ræd, lit. 'noble counsel'; 845/848 to 871) was King of Wessex from 865 until his death in 871. He was the fourth of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, four of whom in turn became king. Æthelred succeeded his elder brother Æthelberht and was followed by his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Æthelred had two sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold, who were passed over for the kingship on their father's death because they were still infants. Alfred was succeeded by his son, Edward the Elder, and Æthelwold unsuccessfully disputed the throne with him. Æthelred's accession coincided with the arrival of the Viking Great Heathen Army in England. Over the next five years the Vikings conquered Northumbria and East Anglia, and at the end of 870 they launched a full-scale attack on Wessex. In early January 871, Æthelred was defeated at the Battle of Reading. Four days later, he scored a victory in the Battle of Ashdown, but this was followed by two defeats at Basing and Meretun. He died shortly after Easter. Alfred was forced to pay off the Vikings, but he scored a decisive victory over them seven years later at the Battle of Edington. Æthelred's reign was important numismatically. Wessex and Mercia were close allies when he became king, and he carried the alliance further by adopting the Mercian Lunettes design, thus creating a unified coinage design for southern England for the first time. The common design foreshadowed the unification of England over the next sixty years and the reform coinage of King Edgar a century later.

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1. ethelred I

   Ethelred I was the King of Wessex from 865 until his death in 871. He was the fourth of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex. He is primarily known for his battles against a large Danish Viking army that had arrived in Wessex in 865, and during his reign, he faced constant attacks from Viking forces. He is also known for being the brother of Alfred the Great, his eventual successor.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ethelred I in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ethelred I in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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