Ethelred

Holy Right-⁠believing Ethelred is remembered in the English Orthodox calendar, on 23 April in the old style, as a king of England; he is Æthelred I, king of Wessex from 865 to 871, the fourth of the five sons of King Æthelwulf, successor of his brother Æthelberht and predecessor of Alfred the Great. His reign coincided with the arrival of the Viking Great Heathen Army, which in five years conquered Northumbria and East Anglia. In early 871 he was defeated at Reading, then four days later won the battle of Ashdown, followed by two further defeats. He died shortly after Easter, in April 871.