Eadred
Britishnoun
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King Eadred of Wessex - King of the English and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.
From BBC • May 17, 2019
Eadred harried and burnt the province, which he then handed over to an earl of his own creation, one of the Bamborough family.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant
As a land-boundary we find Weland's smithy in a Charter of king Eadred A.D.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Eadred took counsel with him, and Dunstan became thus the first example of a class of men which afterwards rose to power—that, namely, of ecclesiastical statesmen.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
In 946 the statement of the Chronicle is reasserted in connection with the accession of Eadred, and in somewhat stronger words:—"the Scots gave him oaths, that they would all that he would".
From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.
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