How did Aethelred die in real life?
By his father’s will he should have succeeded to Wessex on the death of his eldest brother Aethelbald (d. 860). … In the Easter of this year Aethelred died, perhaps of wounds received in the wars against the Danes, and was buried at Wimborne. Is Aethelred real? Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (or Ealdorman Æthelred…