Æthelred Ealdorman of Mercia

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Æthelred Ealdorman of Mercia.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 885 "king Alfred occupied London…and he then entrusted the city to ealdorman Æthelred to rule" [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A and E, 886 (885)]. "Æthelred dux" subscribed a charter of King Alfred dated 892 [S 348]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 893 "ealdorman Æthelred and ealdorman Æthelhelm and ealdorman Æthelnoth" besieged and later defeated the Danes "at Buttington on Severn shore" [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A, 894 (893)]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the death in 912 of "Æthelred ealdorman of Mercia" [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A, 912 [911], C, 911, D, 912, A and D].

• Pedigree. ¹⁴⁰²
From The Reliquary, Quaterly, Archaeological Journal and Review, p. 29,

Ethelred, commonly called Mycel, or The Great, was Earl of Geynes, whose habitation was Gainsborough, married Eadburga, of the royal line of Mercia
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Elswitha married King Alfred
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Æthelreda married Æthelred, Duke of Mercia
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Elwina married Edulph, Arch. B. of York, ob. 1002
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Leofwine, Earl of Mercia married Alwara, daughter of Athestan, Mannesson, a Danish Duke of E. Angles and his wife Alfwena, the great great grand daughter of King Alfred making Leofwine and Alwara second cousins two times removed.
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Leofric, Earl of Mercia, ob. 1057 married Godiva, daughter of Thorold of Bokenhales

• Web Reference: Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians from Wikipedia.
Æthelred of Mercia became ruler of English Mercia shortly after the death of its last king, Ceolwulf II in 879. His rule was confined to the western half, as eastern Mercia was then part of the Viking-ruled Danelaw. Æthelred's ancestry is unknown. He was probably the leader of an unsuccessful Mercian invasion of Wales in 881, and soon afterwards he acknowledged the lordship of King Alfred the Great of Wessex. The alliance was cemented by the marriage of Æthelred to Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd.

Æthelred married Æthelflæd of Wessex Princess of England, daughter of Alfred "The Great" King of England and Ealhswith Queen of England ¹⁶⁰.^,1402 (Æthelflæd of Wessex Princess of England was born about 869 in Wessex, died Jun 918/9 in Tamworth, Gloucester ^.985 and was buried in St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester ¹⁶⁰.)