• Unready royal
• Colorful king of England
• Unready English king
• He struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016)
• 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)
• King of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Saint Edward the Martyr was murdered