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EDRIC, or EADRIC, STREONA (d. 1017)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDRIC, or EADRIC, STREONA (d. 1017)  , ealdorman of the Mercians, was a See also:man of ignoble See also:birth who was advanced to high dignity through the favour of the See also:English See also:king rEthelred II . In 1007 he became ealdorman of the Mercians, and subsequently married'See also:Ethelred's daughter Eadgyth . In the struggle between the English and the Danes he appears in the See also:character of an See also:arch-traitor . When 'Ethelred in Too9 proposed a See also:great attack on the Danes, See also:Edric dissuaded him from carrying it into effect . Again, on the invasion of See also:England by Canute in 1015 Edric deserted See also:Edmund Ironside and joined him . After the See also:battle of Otford he returned to Edmund, but only by his treachery at the battle of Assandun to secure the utter defeat of the See also:national cause . When See also:peace was at length made, Canute restored to Edric the earldom of See also:Mercia; but at See also:Christmas 1017, fearing further treachery, he had him slain—" very rightly " says the Saxon See also:Chronicle .

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