Eadred

British  

/ ˈɛdrɪd /

noun

1. died 955 _ad , king of England (946–55): regained Northumbria (954) from the Norwegian king Eric Bloodaxe

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Example Sentences

King Eadred of Wessex - King of the English and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.

From BBC • May 17, 2019

The next king, Eadred, the last of Eadward's sons, though sickly, had all the spirit of his race.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

In 946 the statement of the Chronicle is reasserted in connection with the accession of Eadred, and in somewhat stronger words:—"the Scots gave him oaths, that they would all that he would".

From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.

Eadred took counsel with him, and Dunstan became thus the first example of a class of men which afterwards rose to power—that, namely, of ecclesiastical statesmen.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Eadwig was swayed by a woman of high lineage, �thelgifu; and the quarrel between her and the older counsellors of Eadred broke into open strife at the coronation feast.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard