Ethelred

Family: English · Role: king · First appears: Book Nine · Part 11

Life events

Thyra agreed to marry Gorm on condition that she received Denmark as her dowry, and they became betrothed.(Book Nine · Part 11 · 📍 Denmark)
- With: Gorm (husband of Thyra) Thyra
- “She surpassed other women in seriousness and shrewdness, and laid the condition on her suitor that she would not marry him till she had received Denmark as a dowry. This compact was made between them, and she was betrothed to Gorm.”
Kanute and Harald attacked England, and Ethelred welcomed their assault.(Book Nine · Part 12 · 📍 England)
- With: Kanute (son of Gorm) Harald (son of Thyra)
- “Neither did they leave England free from an attack of the same kind. Ethelred was delighted with their spirit, and rejoiced at the violence his nephews offered him;”
Ethelred bequeathed England to Kanute and Harald instead of his daughter.(Book Nine · Part 12 · 📍 England)
- With: Kanute (son of Gorm) Harald (son of Thyra)
- “he passed over his daughter, and bequeathed England in his will to these two”

child: Thyra “he wooed Thyra, the daughter of Ethelred, the king of the English, for his wife.”

younger kin: Kanute (son of Gorm) “Ethelred was delighted with their spirit, and rejoiced at the violence his nephews offered him;”
younger kin: Harald (son of Thyra) “Ethelred was delighted with their spirit, and rejoiced at the violence his nephews offered him;”
child: Thyra “Hence Thyra saw her sons inheriting the goods of her father, not grudging to be disinherited herself.”

Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.