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On This Day In History
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30 November 1016
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King Edmund II ( Ironside) died
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On 30 November 1016, Edmund died. The location of his death is uncertain though it is generally accepted that it occurred in London, rather than in Oxford where Henry of Huntingdon claimed it to be in his sordid version of events, which included Edmund’s murder by suffering multiple stab wounds whilst on a privy, while tending to a call of nature. Geoffrey Gaimar states a similar occurrence with the weapon being a crossbow, but with a number of other medieval chroniclers including the Encomium Emmae Reginae not mentioning murder, it is thought Edmund’s cause of death may possibly have been caused by wounds received in battle or by some disease, but it is certainly a possibility that he was murdered.
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About Edmund;
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◼ Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (Old English: Eadmund II Isen-Healf) was King of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016 & of Wessex from 23 April to 30 November 1016.
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◼ The exact date of Edmund's birth is unclear, but it could have been no later than 993 when he was a signatory to charters along with his two elder brothers. He was the third of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready & his first wife, Ælfgifu of York.
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◼ His wife was Ealdgyth (born circa 992 – died after 1016). They had two sons; Edward the Exile (1016 – 19 April 1057) & Edmund Ætheling (c. 1015–17 – possibly 1046, certainly by 1054) .
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◼ His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great.
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◼ He fought five battles against the Danes, ending in defeat against Cnut on 18 October at the Battle of Assandun, after which they agreed to divide the kingdom, Edmund taking Wessex & Cnut the rest of the country. Edmund died shortly afterwards on 30 November, & Cnut became the king of all England.
◼ In 1070 Edmund’s eldest son Edward the Exile's daughter, Margaret, became Queen consort to Malcolm III of Scotland. Through her & her decedents, Edmund is the direct ancestor of every subsequent Scottish monarch, every English monarch from Henry II onward, & every monarch of Great Britain & of the United Kingdom, down to the present day.
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