Eadred Engla Cyning
Eadred | |
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Cynedom | 26. dæg Þrimilcemonðes 946 to 23. dæg Blotmonðes 955 |
Fæder | Eadweard se Ieldra |
Modor | Eadgifu of Kent |
Geboren | 923 Westseaxena Rīce |
Deaþ | 23 Blotmonað 955 Frōm |
Eadred (ymbe 923 oð 23. dæg Blotmonðes 955) wæs Engla Cyning fram 26. dæg Þrimilcemonðes 946 oð his deaþe. He wæs Eadmundes Cyninges iengra sunu be þæs cyninges his þridde wifan Eadgifu. In 946 wæs Eadmund Cyning his ieldran breðer ofslean: Liofa se þeof hine ofstang æt Puclancyrice. Eadred fang to rice forþæm þe his broþorsunan wæron bearn.
Sicle wæs Eadred Cyning and he forþferde æfer nigon wintrum buton bryd noððe bearn and his æftergengan wæron Eadmundes sunan, Eadwig and Eadgar.
Eadred wæs sigefull over þæm Normannum þa healdon Eoferwicscir and Norþhymbraland. Oððæt ðe Æðelstan Cyning, se wæs Eadreded ieldsta healfbroþor, hæfdongencnytted þæt land mid his agnum rice, æfterweard settedon his Norðmenn Yric Blodæx in þæm rice and æfter Yrices deaþ in 954 onswog Eadred swylce norþland and geanede eall Englaland in his handum þe hit næfer wold beon bedæled.