Example sentences of "of æthelred ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osbern records the presence of royal housecarls to prevent interference by the Londoners , and this can be fitted into a credible historical context of popular hostility to the Danes in the city , arising from the fighting and sieges of Æthelred 's time , the heavy taxation of 1018 , and the probability that Cnut found it prudent to maintain a garrison there . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , their statements suggest that injustice on a considerable scale was a feature of Æthelred 's reign , and this is confirmed by a passage of crucial importance in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 3 | It contained an account of Æthelred 's reign and entries on Cnut which are common to all three texts . |
| 4 | But the Chronicle itself is not comprehensive enough to make such doubts irresistible ( see below ) , and skaldic poetry is sometimes a valuable supplement to our other sources , especially on the fighting of Æthelred 's reign and Cnut 's activities in Scandinavia . |
| 5 | Obscure as they are , one can be confident that relations with Normandy were an important aspect of Æthelred 's reign : he is known to have made a treaty with Richard I , married his daughter , and gone into exile there in 1013 , and reported to have both sent a military expedition against it and in 1009 asked Duke Richard II for help . |
| 6 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |
| 7 | That his own son could achieve a measure of success so late in the day is the greatest single indication of Æthelred 's incapacity , and hints at the resilience of English government . |