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Eadric the Grasper: Sons of Mercia: 1

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was a Mercian who rose in Anglo-Saxon society to marry a daughter of Ætheldred the Unready and as though that weren’t enough managed to get himself voted as one of the BBC History Magazone’s ‘Worst Britains. She had so many hopes for what to accomplish here, but as far as true justifications went—or reasons to believe she might actually succeed—they all boiled down to a mere gut instinct, and the one thought that seemed to accompany it. Brice's Day Massacre - although this is uncertain - prompting Sir Frank Stenton's epigraphic footnote about him being the usual suspect for unknown crimes.

Its primary flaw was that pulling it from its sheath would cause noise—noise he could not afford to make. In the coming Danish period this would change to Earl, the ealdorman would continue with reference to Shires, Earl will be used in the following piece to denote the power of the individual. Sweyn died early the following year however and while Sweyn’s supporters declared his son Canute king, the royal counsel in the south of England asked Aethelred back.By this time there were two main court factions, one headed by Ædric and the other headed by Edmund. Eadric now goes to Edmund in Kent and they agree to work together or as the Chronicler says “ Earl Eadric then went to meet the king at Aylesford; than which no measure could be more ill-advised.

In a BBC list of the worst Britons in the last 1,000 years Eadric Streona was the choice for the 11th Century.Hard to see how one man could alter a battle so later storytellers have said that he must have been in league with Cnut. These thegns occur quite often in groups of two or three, which might be interpreted as evidence that they were members of the same family.

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