Ethelred II "the Unraed or Redeless", meaning without counsel, King of England (978-1013)+(1014-16), cr Kingston-upon-Thames 4.4.978, *ca 966/8, +London 23.4.1016, bur Old St.Paul’s Cathedral, London; 1m: ca 980/5 Elgiva (*ca 963, +Winchester II.1002, bur Winchester Cathedral), dau.of either Ealdorman Ethelbert or Thored, Ealdorman of York; 2m: Winchester Cathedral 5.4.1002 Emma of Normandy (*ca 985/7 +14.3.1052); He had issue:

• A1. [1m.] Athelstan, *ca 986, +killed fighting the Danes ca 1012/3
• A2. [1m.] Edmund II "Ironside", King of England (1016) -cr Old St.Paul’s Cathedral IV.1016, *ca 988/90, +possibly murdered at Oxford 30.11.1016, bur Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset; m.Malmesbury, Wiltshire VIII.1015 Edith N (+Hungary after 1017); issue may have been twins
  • B1. Edward "the Exile", styled Atheling and adopted as King Edward the Confessor’s heir, *1016, +London 1057, bur Old St.Paul’s Cathedral; m.in Kiev Agatha of Kiev (+before 1093); see for notes
    • C1. Edgar "the Atheling", last male member of the House of Cerdic, *ca 1053, +ca 1130
    • C2. St. Margaret, *Hungary ca 1045, +Edinburgh Castle 16.11.1093, bur Dunfermline Abbey; m.1069 Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland (*ca 1031 +13.11.1093)
    • C3. Christina, Abbess of Romsey, Hampshire, *Hungary ca 1047/50, +Romsey ca 1102
  • B2. Edmund "the Exile", *1016/17, +after 1030; m.Hedwig of Hungary
• A3. [1m.] Edgar, +1012/15
• A4. [1m.] Edred, +1012/15
• A5. [1m.] Edward, +ca 1004
• A6. [1m.] Edwy, +murdered 1017 on the orders of King Knut, bur Tavistock Abbey, Devon
• A7. [1m.] Egbert, +ca 1005
• A8. [2m.] St.Edward "the Confessor", King of England (1042-66) -cr Winchester Cathedral 3.4.1043, *Islip, Oxfordshire ca III.1005, +Palace of Westminster 5.1.1066, bur Westminster Abbey; m.23.1.1045 Edith of Wessex (*ca 1020, +18.12.1075)
• A9. [2m.] Alfred "the Atheling", *ca 1006/10, +murdered at Ely, Cambridgeshire 5.2.1037, bur Ely Cathedral
• A10. [1m.] Edith; 1m: ca 1007/09 Edric Streona, Ealdorman of Mercia (+executed 1017); 2m: Thurcytel Thorgils Havi (+killed 1039), a Danish Earl
  • B1. [1m.] a son, +young after 1009
  • B2. [2m.] Harold, +1042; m.Ginhilda of Wendland
• A11. [1m.] Elgiva; m.Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria (+killed 1016/18)
  • B1. Edith; m.Maldred of Scotland, Lord of Allerdale (+1045)
• A12. [1m.] Wulfhilda; m.Ulfcytel Snylling, Ealdorman of East Anglia (+killed 1016)
• A13. [1m.] a daughter; m.Athelstan N (+killed 1010)
• A14. [1m.] a daughter, Abbess of Wherwell, +after 1051
• A15. [2m.] Godgifu, *ca 1004/14, +before 1049; 1m: Drogo, Count of Mantes and the Vexin (+1035); 2m: ca 1036 Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and of Lens (+1093); all issue by 1m
  • B1. Ralph, Earl of Hereford, +1057; m.Gytha, dau.of Osgood Clapa
  • B2. Walter, Count of Mantes and the Vexin, +after 1063; m.Biota, dau.of Herbert, Count of Maine
  • B3. Fulk, Bishop of Amiens, *1030, +1058

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