Eadred

Eadred (c. 923 – 23 November 955), younger son of Edward the Elder, became king in 946, when his brother Edmund I was killed leaving the young princes Eadwig and Edgar. His reign was dominated by the long struggle with Viking York, and in 954 the York magnates expelled their last king, Erik Bloodaxe, bringing all Northumbria under his rule.

A friend of Dunstan of Glastonbury, he supported the early English Benedictine reform. He died unmarried in his early thirties in 955, and Eadwig and Edgar succeeded him in turn.