Eadred, English king (b. 923)
Eadred (also Edred, 'the Weak-in-the-Feet') (923 – 23 November 955) was King of the English from 946 until his death. Eadred was the youngest son of King Edward the Elder and Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great. Edward died in 924 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Eadred's half-brother Æthelstan. When Æthelstan died childless in 939, Eadred's older brother Edmund I became king.
Following his brother Edmund's assassination in 946, Eadred came to the throne. The chief achievement of his reign was to bring the Kingdom of Northumbria under total English control, which occurred with the defeat and expulsion of Eric Bloodaxe in 954. Eadred died at the age of 32 having never married, and was succeeded by his 15-year-old nephew, Eadwig.