Robbity
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According to Wkipedia:RObbity, One wonders if he earned the sobriquet during his first reign and resolved it by the second?
"Unready" is a mistranslation of the Old English word unræd (meaning bad-counseled), a twist on his name "Æthelred", meaning noble-counseled. It should not be "unprepared", but rather "ill-advised".
I did wonder if the "Unready" was a reference to the fact that he was only a child when he first came to the throne, so he would possibly have been unready at that point to take on his regal responsibilities.
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