Edward The Confessor
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 8075 years ago |
Born | Islip |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | January 5,1066 |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Edith of Wessex |
Buried | Westminster Abbey, London, United Kingdom |
Siblings | Edmund Ironside |
Harthacnut | |
Alfred Aetheling | |
Harthacanute | |
Ælfgifu | |
Nephews | Edward the Exile |
Ralph the Timid | |
Edmund Ætheling | |
Foulques d'Amiens | |
Walter III. | |
Parents | Æthelred the Unready |
Emma of Normandy | |
Nephew | Edward the Exile |
Edmund Ætheling | |
Ralph the Timid | |
Foulques d'Amiens | |
Deposed date | 1066 |
Date of birth | January 1,5583 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1509189 |
Edward The Confessor Life story
Edward the Confessor 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. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.