Edward the Confessor ( c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy.
Edward the Confessor died childless on 5th January 1066, leaving no direct heir to the throne.
He reigned 940-946. He regained northern England and Strathclyde from the Vikings and gave Strathclyde to his ally Malcolm I MacDonald, King of Scots. Edmund I is known as a legal reformer, especially for his restrictions on the "blood feud." showed himself to be a great statesman as well as a great warrior.
While the glorious Edmund, king of the English, was at the royal township called Pucklechurch in English, in seeking to rescue his steward from Leofa, a most wicked thief, lest he be killed, was himself killed by the same man on the feast of St Augustine, teacher of the English, on Tuesday, 26 May, in the fourth ...
It depicts the killing of Edmund, King of East Anglia, by the Danish army in 870. Edmund was said to have been killed after being defeated in battle because he refused to renounce Christianity. He was supposedly pierced with arrows and then beheaded.
Medieval versions of Edmund's life and martyrdom differ as to whether he died in battle fighting the Great Heathen Army, or if he met his death after being captured and then refusing the Viking leaders' demand that he renounce Christ. A popular cult emerged after Edmund's death, and he was canonised by the Church.
Edmund I was murdered at a feast in his own hall, at the age of 25 in 946, after only seven years on the throne, and his brother Edred succeeded him.
When Aelfgith died in 944 Edmund married Ethelflaed of Damerham, daughter of Ealdorman Aelfgar of Wiltshire. Almost immediately after his coronation, Edmund had to face the threat of an invasion by Olaf Guthfrithson, the Danish ruler of Northumbria and Dublin.
He was married twice. With is first wife, St. Aelfgith, he had two children who became King Eadwig All-Fair and King Edgar the Peacemaker. After she died in 944 Edmund married Ethelflaed of Damerham.
Among all the horrendous things Ivan the Terrible did in his life, his killing of his own son still stands out as one of the worst. There was no line Ivan the Terrible would not cross.
Louis III of France (879–882), king of West Francia, died from a skull fracture after falling from a horse while chasing a girl.
Child king
Henry was born on 6 December 1421 at Windsor Castle, the only child and heir-apparent of King Henry V. Succeeding to the throne as King of England at the age of nine months on 1 September 1422, the day after his father's death; he remains the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne.
Even though their marriage had been a political alliance, Edward and Eleanor became deeply attached and had 16 children together. Their first two sons died in infancy, while the heir Alphonso died at the age of 12. Their son Edward then became the heir.
Genghis Khan is known as one of the greatest warriors in the history of the world, but that is not the only thing he is known for. He is also known for being the man who had the most kids in the world.
It is generally assumed that they were murdered; a common hypothesis is that the murder was commissioned by Richard III in an attempt to secure his hold on the throne. Their deaths may have occurred sometime in 1483, but apart from their disappearance, the only evidence is circumstantial.
King Edmund II lronside (1016)
King of England in 1016, the son of Aethelred II 'the Unready' . He led the resistance to Canute's invasion in 1015, and on Ethelred's death in 1016 was chosen king by the citizens of London. Meanwhile, the Witan (the king's council) elected Canute.
Edmund married firstly to Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury and the couple produced three children, a daughter and two sons, Edwy and Edgar, who both succeeded to the English throne. After her death in around 944, Ælfgifu was canonized by the church.
Edmund was the second son of Athelred (II) and became the heir to the throne after the eldest son, Athelstan, fell in battle some time in 1014. Edmund had already done his share of fighting, and had proved himself valiant, but once the heir he became even more determined.
Instead, she asks him to bring his brother and sisters to Narnia to meet her. The Queen does not give Edmund an adequate explanation for why she wants to meet them, but she tells Edmund that she will give him all the Turkish Delight he wants if he brings them to her. This is reason enough for Edmund.
In October 1016, Cnut decisively defeated forces led by the English king, Edmund Ironside (reigned 1066), at the Battle of Assandun. When Edmund died on 30 November 1016, Cnut became king of all England.
The first king of England
It was Edward's son, Æthelstan, who first controlled the whole area that would form the kingdom of England. Æthelstan's sister had married Sihtric, the Viking ruler of the Northumbrians. When Sihtric died in 927, Æthelstan succeeded to that kingdom.
Edmund was given control of Wessex and Canute was allowed to control Mercia and Northumbria. Part of the agreement was that whoever died first should give their territory to the other. In November 1016 Edmund died and so Canute took total control of England.
Canute defeated him at Ashingdon in Essex in the summer of 1016, striking a treaty of peace which allowed Edmund to rule in Wessex and Canute to take the rest. Edmund died in at the end of the year.
In History
Prince Edmund is based on the historical figure Edmund Ironside, also known as Edmund II. He was King of the English in 1016. His epithet of "Ironside" was given to him "because of his valor" in resisting the Danish invasion led by King Cnut the Great.