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- This is ÆTHELRED MUCEL, EALDORMAN OF GAINAS and is not the same as Æthelred I, King of Wessex or Aethelred, "the Pious" of Wessex.
They lived during the same time period and knew each other. Æthelred Mucel was an Ealdorman in Mercia and the father in law of Alfred the Great. Where as Æthelred I was Alfred the Great's older brother and was King of Wessex, it was Æthelred I who died in 871. Æthelred Mucel continued to live until sometime after 895.
They are TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE!
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Æthelred Mucel was an Anglo-Saxon Ealdorman of the Gaini Tribe of Mercia. The Gaini inhabited the area of Modern day England that became known as Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, named after them. His date of birth and parentage is not know with certainty. It is likely he was born about 825.
Æthelred married Eadburh, 'from the royal stock of the king of the Mercians' believed to be descended from King Cenwulf of Mercia. Together they had two known children:
- Æthelwulf, Ealdorman of Mercia died 901
- Ealhswith, married Alfred the Great in 868 and was the mother of generations of English Kings.
Æthelred Mucel is known to have been alive in 895 when he witnessed a charter. The date and circumstances of his death and burial are not known, however, it was sometime after 895. He was survived by his wife Eadburh, who was later described as a 'chaste widow'
Through his daughter Ealhswith, Æthelred Mucel was the grandfather of King Edward the Elder and Æthelflæd Lady of Mercia, often considered Queen of Mercia.
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ÆTHELRED "Mucel" (-885 or after). "Mucel dux" subscribed a charter of King Æthelred I dated 868. Ealdorman of the Gainas in Mercia. m EADBURGA, daughter of [CENWULF King of Mercia & his wife Elfrida]. Asser records that Alfred's mother-in-law "Edburga of the royal line of Mercia…was a venerable lady and after the decease of her husband, she remained many years a widow, even till her own death." According to Weir, she was perhaps the daughter of Cenwulf King of Mercia. The primary source on which this is based has not yet been identified, and the chronology is not favourable considering King Cenwulf's death in 821. Æthelred & his wife had two children:
a) ÆTHELWULF (-903). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the death in 903 of "ealdorman Æthelwulf the brother of Ealswith, the mother of King Edward." Ealdorman.
b) EALHSWITH ([848/53]-904). Asser records the marriage in 868 of Alfred and "a noble Mercian lady, daughter of Athelred surnamed Mucil earl of the Gaini…[and] Edburga of the royal line of Mercia." Roger of Hoveden records the names of her parents, specifying that her mother was related to the kings of Mercia. Her birth date is estimated from her having given birth to her first child in 869. "Ealhswith mater regis" subscribed a charter of King Edward dated 901. She founded the convent of St Mary's at Winchester, and became a nun there after her husband died. m (868) ALFRED of Wessex, son of ÆTHELWULF King of Wessex & his [first] wife Osburga (Wantage, Berkshire 849[157]-26 Oct 899, bur Winchester Cathedral, transferred to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, later called the New Minster). He succeeded in 871 as ALFRED King of Wessex.
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Æthelred
Also Known As: ""Ealdorman of the Gainas""
Birthdate: circa 825
Birthplace: Mercia, England
Death: circa 895
Mercia, Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:
Husband of Ædburh
Father of Æthelwulf and Ealhswith
Occupation: Earl of the Gaini, of Gainsborough & of Lincolnshire, Lord de Gainsborough, graaf Mercia/Eadburth
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825 - 895 (70 years)
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