Aetheling the Red

Sir Aetheling the Red is a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> character from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_%28cartoon%29" title="The Transformers (cartoon)">cartoon</a> portion of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28franchise%29" title="Generation 1 (franchise)">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.

<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 277px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Siraetheling%26nimue.jpg" class="image" title="It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England! And this is my trusty servant, Patsy."><img alt="It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England! And this is my trusty servant, Patsy." src="Sir%20Aetheling%20the%20Red_files/275px-Siraethelingnimue.jpg" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="215" width="275"></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Siraetheling%26nimue.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"><img src="Sir%20Aetheling%20the%20Red_files/magnify-clip.png" alt="" height="11" width="15"></a></div>It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England! And this is my trusty servant, Patsy.</div></div></div> Sir Aetheling the Red is a feudal lord in the year 542 on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> and is father to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nimue" title="Nimue">Princess Nimue</a>. He rules lands adjacent to rival lord <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sir_Wigend_du_Blackthorne" title="Sir Wigend du Blackthorne">Sir Wigend du Blackthorne</a> in the countryside far from Camelot and enjoys a good joust.

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Voice actor: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alan_Oppenheimer" title="Alan Oppenheimer">Alan Oppenheimer</a> (English), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Toshio_Ishii" title="Toshio Ishii">Toshio Ishii</a> (Japanese)

Sir Aetheling was feuding with his neighbor, Sir Wigend, because a dispute over cows and a trampled garden had spiraled out of control. Sir Aetheling hoped that a jousting tournament between the two fiefs would be a chance to negotiate peace. He was very impressed with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hoist_%28G1%29" title="Hoist (G1)">Hoist</a>'s skills when the Autobot made a suit of armor for <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spike_Witwicky" title="Spike Witwicky">Spike</a> from a single piece of metal.

At the tournament, Sir Wigend refused to negotiate at the table and demanded the dispute be settled on the field, with Rumble and Ramjet serving as his champions. To even the odds, Sir Aetheling climbed upon <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Warpath_%28G1%29" title="Warpath (G1)">Warpath</a> and the two soundly trounced their Decepticon opponents in a joust.

[[Image:|left|200px|thumb|Consult the Book of Armaments!]] Starscream tired of sixth-century customs, grabbed Sir Aetheling's daughter Nimue as a hostage, and rolled back to Blackthorne's castle. Sir Aetheling's forces went to siege the castle and take her back, only to find Starscream in control and blasting them with bombs made from simple gunpowder. Aetheling and Blackthorne united and asked the wizard <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beorht" title="Beorht">Beorht</a> to give Hoist and Warpath <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_%28G1%29" title="Energon (G1)">life</a> in order to fight the Decepticons.

While he never outright said he approved of Nimue's marriage to Blackthorne, he certainly didn't say anything against it when he watched his former rival give his daughter a ring.

After the capture of the Decepticons, Sir Aetheling waved goodbye to the Transformers as they entered the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dragon_Mound" title="Dragon Mound">Dragon Mound</a> and returned to the future. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/A_Decepticon_Raider_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court" title="A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court">A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court</a></span>

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• 'Aetheling' (also rendered 'Ætheling') is an Old English word

meaning 'prince'. It was the epithet of the last, uncrowned, Anglo-Saxon king of England, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_the_%C3%86theling" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Edgar_the_Ætheling">Edgar the Ætheling</a>, but was not generally used as a proper noun.