Aethelred II

Aethelred II was King of Freland from 777 until 792 after succeeding his brother Edgar I.

Aethelred was born in 751 to Aethelred I of Freland and his wife at a young age Aethelred read many books and hated war. When Aethelred became a teenager he became a Bishop at St Edwards Cathedral and had no interest in being King.

In 776 Aethelreds father died and was succeeding as King by Aethelreds brother Edgar because of this Aethelred began working on the church and eventually became Archbishop of St Edwards Church however in 777 Edgar died and so Aethelred was called to be King.

Aethelred was forced by the nobles to accept the crown during his reign Aethelred mainly focused on increasing the priests influence in Freland which angered some of the nobles with Edgar selling some of the Barons land and giving it to the Archbishops and the Priest eventually the First Barons Revolt broke out which was crushed after a few months with Henry Irons controlling the Army a Frellish man who was only 25 eventually Henry became the Kings closest advisor and became popular with the barons even though he crushed their revolt eventually however Henry and some barons began planning to overthrow Aethelred and make Henry King but Aethelred found this out and Had Henry executed for treason.

In 792 Henry died of a major stroke and was succeeded by his son Edwin.