Sweyn defeated the Anglo-Saxon opposition and King Ethelred fled the country.
Richard attempted to improve relations with England through his sister Emma of Normandy's marriage to King Ethelred.
King Ethelred ordered that the saint's three feast days (March 18, February 13, and June 20) should be celebrated throughout England.
His mother was a kinswoman of King Ethelred and his son Edmund Ironside.
The laws of King Ethelred the Unready declare (V, 22):
King Ethelred of the West Saxons is dead, of the coughing-sickness.
April 23 - King Ethelred of Wessex (in battle)
The most important tomb in the church is that of King Ethelred, the brother of Alfred the Great.
The Saxon army, led by King Ethelred, was beaten by the Danes.
Datchet is first mentioned between 990 and 994, when King Ethelred made small grants of land here.
