13 events with tag "Aethelred"
979
ID: 5858
Aethelred initially favors anti-monastic party - restores some secular clergy, reduces monastic privileges
ID: 5858
985
ID: 5860
Aethelred reconciles with Dunstan - performs penance for brother's murder, restores some monastic privileges
ID: 5860
993
ID: 5869
Aethelred's charter of repentance - acknowledges wrongdoing against monasteries, restores seized lands, admits 'youthful ignorance'
ID: 5869
995
ID: 5870
Aethelred becomes generous monastic patron - grants extensive privileges to Abingdon Abbey, reverses anti-monastic stance
ID: 5870
997
ID: 5871
Aethelred's law codes protect monasteries - establishes penalties for violating monastic sanctuary and property
ID: 5871
1001
ID: 5872
Aethelred promotes Edward's cult - officially recognizes murdered half-brother as martyr, encourages veneration
ID: 5872
1002
ID: 5876
April 1002
Aethelred marries Emma of Normandy - alliance to prevent Vikings using Norman ports, Emma becomes queen, takes English name Aelfgifu
ID: 5876
1005
ID: 5874
Monastic chroniclers remain critical - despite Aethelred's repentance, monks never forgive early anti-monastic stance
ID: 5874
1005
ID: 5877
Emma bears Aethelred sons Edward and Alfred - future Edward the Confessor born, creating succession complications
ID: 5877
1009
ID: 5875
Aethelred links Viking raids to sins - royal charter suggests invasions are divine punishment for crimes against Church
ID: 5875
1013
ID: 5863
Secular bishops dominate under late Aethelred - monastic reform effectively reversed, married clergy common again
ID: 5863
1014
ID: 5879
Emma returns as queen - accompanies Aethelred back to England after Sweyn's death
ID: 5879
1016
ID: 5880
April 23, 1016
Death of Aethelred leaves Emma vulnerable - widow with young sons, Edmund Ironside becomes king briefly
ID: 5880