Book 2, Chapter 9, Edward 975 AD to 1016 AD – Ethelred
Fortunately for Ethelred, the Danes suddenly ceased for a short time from their attacks upon England, in order to assist their kinsmen, the Normans, and Ethelred, who had become a widower, bethought him of strengthening his position by marrying Emma, the sister of Robert II, Duke of Normandy. The union took place in the spring of 1002, and if any good results were expected to accrue from it, in averting the repeated and ruinous attacks of the Danes, those expectations were blasted by a cruel and tragic act which immediately afterwards was perpetrated.
Chapter 9, Edward the Martyr
Edward, Commonly Styled “the Martyr”
Chapter 9, Ethelred
Ethelred’s Marriage with Emma of Normandy
Chapter 9, Sweyn’s Revenge
Chapter 9, Thurkill Ravages England
Sweyn prepares for the Conquest of England
Sweyn Dies and’ is Followed by Canute
Chapter 9, Edmund Ironside
Divisions and Treachery among the English
Edmund Ironside Proclaimed King
Successive Battles with Canute
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