About Æthelred II
Æthelred II was a sovereign.
Æthelred II (fl c. 875) was king of East Anglia.
No textual evidence of his reign is known, but numismatic evidence points to his reign being in the 870s, perhaps together with Oswald of East Anglia, whose coins are known from the same period.
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Who was Æthelred II?
king of East Anglia
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Æthelred II was a sovereign.
Sources & further reading
· DBpedia: Æthelred II of East Anglia
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