What is Ethelred the Unready?
{{Infobox Royalty | name = Athelred II | image = | image_size = 170px | caption = An artist's [[:en:wikt:depiction|depiction]] of Athelred | succession = [[List of English monarchs|King of the English]] | moretext = ([[Style of the British sovereign#English sovereigns|more...]]) | reign = 18 March 978 — 23 July 1013 | reign-type = First Reign | coronation = 29 March 978 | predecessor = [[Edward the Martyr]] | successor = [[Sweyn I of Denmark|Sweyn I]] | reign1 = 3 February 1014 — 23 April 1016 | reign-type1 = Second Reign | predecessor1 = Sweyn I | successor1 = [[Edmund II of England|Edmund II]] | regent1 = [[Ælfthryth, Queen of England|Ælfthryth]] (978–984) | reg-type1 = [[Regent]] | spouse = {{plainlist| * [[Ælfgifu of York]]<br />(m. 986; died 1002) * {{marriage|[[Emma of Normandy]]|1002}} }} | issue = {{plainlist| * [[Athelstan Aetheling]] * [[Edmund II of England|Edmund II, King of the English]] * [[Ecgberht Ætheling]] * [[Edred Aetheling]] * Eadgyth * Ælfgifu * [[Eadwig Aetheling]] * [[Edgar Aetheling the Elder]] * [[Edward the Confessor]] * [[Alfred Aetheling]] * [[Goda]] }} | issue-type = [[Issue (genealogy)|Issue]] | house = [[House of Wessex|Wessex]] | father = [[Edgar of England|Edgar]] | mother = [[Ælfthryth, Queen of England|Ælfthryth]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|968|3|13|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Winchester]], [[Hampshire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1016|4|23|968|3|13|df=yes}} | death_place = [[London]] | burial_place = [[St Paul's Cathedral|Old Saint Paul's Cathedral]] | religion = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] }} '''Athelred II''' (13 March 968 — 23 April 1016) nicknamed '''the Unready''' was the [[List of English monarchs|King of England]] twice. The first time was from 978 until in 1013 where a [[Viking]] king, [[Sweyn I of Denmark]], overthrew him. The second time was from Sweyn's death in 1014 until Athelred's dea