Æthelred, ealdorman of the Mercians, Witenagemóts held by, 13, 14; husband of Æthelflæd, 35; translates St. Oswald’s body to Gloucester, 35; his pressure on the Welsh, 42; his semi-royal position, 42; London entrusted to, 109; fortifies Worcester, 111; attends the conference of Chelsea, 111; acts as sponsor to one of Hæsten’s sons, 113; co-operates with Edward, Æthelnoth, and Æthelhelm against the Danes, 115-6. Æthelred II, king of the English, Edgar’s reign regarded as a golden age under, 67. Æthelweard, son of Alfred, said to have studied at Oxford, 63. Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester, St. Neot said to have been a friend of (!), 56. Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, 39 _n._; Athelstan, king of Kent, probably brother of, 6 _n._; said to have been in holy orders before his accession, 7; matter relating to, in Asser, 14; Burgred of Mercia asks help of, 85, 88; his second marriage with Judith, 17, 78, 80 _n._; stays at the Court of Charles the Bald, 17, 76, 78; has a Frankish secretary, 17, 18; Lupus of Ferrières corresponds with, 18 _n._, 71 _n._; his liberality, 18 _n._, 71 _n._; reduces Wales under Burgred, 37, 85; has a shrine made for relics of St. Aldhelm, 47; his will, 86, 90, 91, 126; St. Neot made son of, 6, 55, 57; letter of Leo IV to, 70, 72; his visit to Rome, 74-6, 84, 86; letter of, to Louis the Pious, 74; divides his dominions, 75, 86; restores the Schola Saxonum, 76; his return to England, 78; alleged rebellion against, _see_ Æthelbald; his death, 79, 84; character of his reign, 85; compared with Louis the Pious, 79, 80; did not divorce Osburh, 84; made under-king of Kent by Egbert, 85; Ealhswith, daughter of, 88; naval engagement under, 120. Æthelwulf, ealdorman of Berkshire, defeats Danes at Englefield, 93; slain, 93. Alamanni, Charles the Fat, king of, 41. Alcuin, letter of, to Offa, 136; services of, to Frankish education, 137. Aldfrid, king of the Northumbrians, confused with Æthelred, 65. Aldhelm, St., bishop of Sherborne, Æthelwulf has a shrine made for the relics of, 47; Alfred’s admiration for the Saxon poems of, 141.