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
The first sign of these troubles was seen when the death of Eadred in 955 handed over the realm to a child king, his nephew Eadwig.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
At last Eadred caught him and put him in prison; and though, after a while, he was released and again acted as bishop, he was not allowed to return to his province.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William
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
The next king, Eadred, the last of Eadward's sons, though sickly, had all the spirit of his race.
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
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