Ethelred
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Ethelred is an Old English name meaning "noble council" or ("well advised") (æþel and ræd, cf. German Adel and Rat).
Several persons of Anglo-Saxon England were named Æthelred or Ethelred:
- Æthelred of Mercia, d 716 king of Mercia
- Ethelred of Wessex, king of Wessex c. 865–871
- Ethelred, Archbishop of Canterbury c. 9th century
- Earl Aethelred of Mercia, c. 883–911
- Ethelred the Unready, king of England 978–1016
- Æthelred I of East Anglia (fl 760s-780s)
- Æthelred II of East Anglia (fl 870s)
- Æthelred I of Northumbria
- Ethelred, Earl of Fife c. 11th/12th centuries
- Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx
King Ethelred is also the name of Princess Daphne's father in the Dragon's Lair backstory.
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