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See also:ETHELRED I ., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Wessex and See also:Kent (866-871), was the See also:fourth son of AEthelwulf of Wessex, and should, by his See also:father's will, have succeeded to Wessex on the See also:death of his eldest See also:brother'See also:Ethelbald. He seems, however, to have stood aside in favour of his brother'Ethelberht, king of Kent, to whose See also:joint kingdoms he succeeded in 866. 'Ethelred's reign was one See also:long struggle against the Danes. In the See also:year of his See also:succession a large Danish force landed in See also:East Anglia, and in the year 868 "Ethelred and his brother See also:Alfred went to help See also:Burgred, or Burhred, of See also:Mercia, against this See also:host, but the Mercians soon made See also:peace with their foes. In 871 the Danes encamped at See also:Reading, where they defeated "Ethelred and his brother, but later in the year the See also:English won a See also:great victory at " "Escesdun."
A fortnight later they were defeated at Basing, but partially retrieved their See also:fortune by a victory at " Mwretun " (perhaps Marden in See also:Wiltshire), though the Danes held the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field. In the See also:Easter of this year "Ethelred died, perhaps of wounds received in the See also:wars against the Danes, and was buried at See also:Wimborne. He See also:left a son, "Ethelwold, who gave some trouble to his See also:cousin See also:Edward the See also:Elder, when the latter succeeded to the See also:kingdom. 'Ethelweard the historian was also a descendant of this king.
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