Gender Masculine
Usage Anglo-Saxon [1][2]
Meaning & History
Derived from the Old English elements æðele "noble" and ræd "counsel, advice". This was the name of two Saxon kings of England including Æðelræd II "the Unready" whose realm was overrun by the Danes in the early 11th century. The name was rarely used after the Norman Conquest.
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Images
Depiction of Æthelred the Unready fom the 13th centuryCategories
Sources & References
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, available from http://www.pase.ac.uk/jsp/index.jsp.
- Searle, William George. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum. Cambridge, 1897, page 46.
