Æthelred the Unready
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Marriage of Ethelred the Unready More
King of ethelred'snd, a later english royal line, has not married a foreign princess since the mid ninth century. So this is the first big dynastic marriage of his dynasty and living memory. And so by marrying emma, the daughter of the duke of normandy, he can hope to secure a norman alliance. In fact, it does hold, and normandy later becomes a place they can go into exile into.
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