Edmund I "The Magnificent" King Of ENGLAND

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• AFN: GS4H-RK
• Name: The Magnificent
• _UID: FD60A21612AE4324B7281B5564375827A5C5
• Titled: Between 939 and 946
• Event: 29 Nov 939

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Titled:
King of England

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Crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames

Edmund married Elgiva (St. Elgiva) Queen Of ENGLAND about 940. Elgiva was born about 922 in Wessex, England; died in 944 in Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorsetshire, England; was buried in Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorsetshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: FLGP-VH
• Name: Edwy "The FAIR"
• Name: The Fair
• _UID: 7B9F4A30D2C64BF0899F2DFED3D73F5BFE84

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• AFN: GS4H-P7
• Name: Edgar "The PEACABLE"
• Name: The Peacable
• _UID: F5A624911EF14971A6590C8BB4138AB8B868

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Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edwy's death in 959 - a death which probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers. Edgar was a firm and capable ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britain, as well as by Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first consort to be crowned queen of England.

Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reformed and old monastic sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which were of land recovered from the Vikings.

In the 970s and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united kingdom based on royal justice and order was emerging; the Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britain'. After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.


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Edgar married Elfrida (Elfthryth) Queen Of ENGLAND in 964 in , Wessex, England. Elfrida was born about 947 in Of, Devonshire, England; died in 1000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: B19R-5C
• Name: Aethelred II "The Unready" Of WESSEX
• Name: The Unready
• _UID: 41EC8E7EDABD4F20A2C61747ACB386F3DDCA

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Ethelred, the younger son of Edgar, became king at the age of seven following the murder of his half-brother Edward II in 978 at Corfe Castle, Dorset, by Edward's own supporters.

For the rest of Ethelred's rule (reigned 978-1016), his brother became a posthumous rallying point for political unrest; a hostile Church transformed Edward into a royal martyr. Known as the Un-raed or 'Unready' (meaning 'no counsel', or that he was unwise), Ethelred failed to win or retain the allegiance of many of his subjects. In 1002, he ordered the massacre of all Danes in England to eliminate potential treachery.

Not being an able soldier, Ethelred defended the country against increasingly rapacious Viking raids from the 980s onwards by diplomatic alliance with the duke of Normandy in 991 (he later married the duke's daughter Emma) and by buying off renewed attacks by the Danes with money levied through a tax called the Danegeld. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1006 was dismissive: 'in spite of it all, the Danish army went about as it pleased'. By 1012, 48,000 pounds of silver was being paid in Danegeld to Danes camped in London.

In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy when the powerful Viking Sweyn of Denmark dispossessed him. Ethelred returned to rule after Sweyn's death in 1014, but died himself in 1016.


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32nd Great-grandparent

Ethelred married Alfgifu (Aelflaed) Queen Of ENGLAND about 985 in Of, Wessex, England. Alfgifu (daughter of Thored Ealderman GUNNARSSON) was born about 968 in Of, Wessex, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ethelred married Emma Princess Of NORMANDY in 1002 in Of Normandie, France. Emma (daughter of Richard I "Sans Peur" Duke Of NORMANDY, 3rd and Gunnora (Gonnor) DE CREPON) was born about 982 in Normandie (Normandy), France; died on 6 Mar 1051-1052 in , Winchester, Hampshire, England; was buried in St Martin's Church, Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ironside
• _UID: B8A405C30A404194BD6687A8C5FEBE97AD84
• Alt. Birth: Abt 993; Alt. Birth

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Edmund II, byname EDMUND IRONSIDE (b. c 993 - d. 30 Nov 1016), king of the English from 30 April to 30 Nov 1016, surnamed "Ironside" for his staunch resistance to a massive invasion led by the Danish king Canute.

The son of King Ethelred II the Unready (reigned 978-1016), Edmund defied his father's orders by marrying (1015) the widow of one of the Danish lords then occupying English territory. Nevertheless, when Canute invaded England later in 1015, Edmund raised an army in northern England and ravaged regions that would not rally to his cause.

Upon Edthelred's death (April 1016), a small number of councillors and citizens of London proclaimed Edmund as their ruler, but a larger body of nobles at Southampton declared for Canute. Edmund then launched a series of offensives against his rival. He recovered Wessex and relieved London of a siege before being decisively defeated by Canute at Ashington, Essex on October 18. In the ensuing peace settlement, Edmund retained Wessex, while Canute held the lands north of the River Thames. After Edmund died (probably of natural causes), Canute became sole ruler of England. [Encyclopaedia Britannica]

RULED:
1016-1016

Edmund married about Aug 1015 in Of, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Ealgyth Of MERCIA in Aug 1015 in London, Middlesex, England (2ND Husb). Ealgyth (daughter of Aelfthryth Of MERCIA and Ealdgyth Morcarsdottir Of MERCIA) was born about 990 in Mercia, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: 8XQ8-94
• Name: Aelfgifu Of WESSEX
• Name: Elgiva ENGLAND
• _UID: F6E6AE616FDB48998CD3A7F017DFC721EA80
• Alt. Birth: Abt 989; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Abt 997; Alt. Birth

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Relationship (J,M&L):
31st Great-grandparent

Alt. Birth:
Wessex, England

Alt. Birth:
, Wessex, England

Family/Spouse: Alfgar III "The Saxon" Earl Of MERCIA. Alfgar (son of Leofric III Earl Of MERCIA and Godiva Of COVENTRY, Lady Godiva) was born about 1025 in Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia); died after 1062 in Mercia, England; was buried in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elfgifu married Ughtred "The Bold" Earl Of NORTHUMBRIA about 1015 in England. Ughtred was born about 971 in Northumberland, Northumberland, England; died in 1016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: B19R-SM
• Name: The Confessor
• _UID: D82A126C78704ABDAC95299630EA02CD580D

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In 1042 Edward 'the Confessor' became King. As the surviving son of Ethelred and his second wife, Emma, he was a half-brother of Hardicanute. With few rivals (Canute's line was extinct and Edward's only male relatives were two nephews in exile), Edward was undisputed King; the threat of usurpation by the King of Norway rallied the English and Danes in allegiance to Edward. Brought up in exile in Normandy, Edward lacked military ability or reputation. His Norman sympathies caused tensions with one of Canute's most powerful earls, Godwin of Wessex, whose daughter, Edith, Edward married in 1045 (the marriage was childless).

These tensions resulted in the crisis of 1050-52, when Godwin assembled an army to defy Edward. With reinforcements from the earls of Mercia and Northumberland, Edward banished Godwin from the country and sent Queen Edith from court. Edward used the opportunity to appoint Normans to places at court, and as sheriffs at local level. William, Duke of Normandy may have been designated heir. However, the hostile reaction to this increased Norman influence brought Godwin back. Edward subsequently formed a closer alliance with Godwin's son Harold, who led the army as the King's deputy (he defeated a Welsh incursion in 1055) and whom Edward may have named as heir on his deathbed.

Warding off political threats, England during the last 15 years of Edward's reign was relatively peaceful. Prosperity was rising as agricultural techniques improved and the population rose to around one million. Taxation was comparatively light, as Edward was not an extravagant king and lived off the revenues of his own lands (approximately ?5,500 a year) - nor did he have to pay for expensive military campaigns. Deeply religious, Edward was responsible for building Westminster Abbey (in the Norman style) and he was buried there after his death in 1066.


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Edward married on 23 Jan 1044-1045. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: V9SZ-BP
• Name: Goda Princess Of ENGLAND
• _UID: 5F5D667F392049C497D59FA9745B7BC5CA62
• Alt. Birth: Abt 1005; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1055; Alt. Death

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Alt. Birth:
Wessex, England

Goda married Dreux (Drogo) Count Of AMIENS about 1020 in England. Dreux (son of Gauthier I Comte D'amiens Et Vexin De VALOIS and Adele (Alix) De SENLIS) was born about 980 in Vexin, Normandie, France; died in 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: FC3L-KW
• Name: Ingelric Of ENGLAND
• Name: The Saxon
• _UID: D37ECEA4C63F44E9A89F7EBC9FA23BFAEC0B

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