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Edward the Confessor King of England

Male 1005 - 1066  (61 years)


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  • Name Edward the Confessor King of England  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Born 1005  Islip, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1013 
    Fled to Normandy with his mother and father 
    Occupation 1016 
    Remained in Normandy during the reign of Canute (until 1035) 
    Military 1035 
    Led an abortive attempt to capture the crown for himself after the death of Canute I 
    Occupation 1040 
    Recalled to England, for some reason, to the court of Hardicanute, his half-brother 
    Occupation 8 Jun 1042 
    Called to the throne by the London Witan in Westminster (through Godwin of Wessex's influence) 
    Occupation 3 Apr 1043 
    Crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral (royal seat of the West Saxons) 
    Occupation 1066 
    Named Harold II to succeed him (on his deathbed) instead of the legitimate heir Edgar Ætheling (his cousin William of Normandy was not amused) 
    Died 5 Jan 1066  Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 6 Jan 1066  Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4356  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Æthelred II King of England,   b. 968, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1016, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Emma Regina de Normandie Queen of England,   b. Abt 982, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 1002  Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2056  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ædgyth of Wessex Queen of England,   b. 1019, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Dec 1075, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 23 Jan 1045  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2200  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 10, p. 664.

    2. [S576] Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, augustin déchaussé, (Troisième Édition, la Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 2 août 1726-1733), Volume 2, p. 266.

    3. [S751] Histoire de Normandie, Orderic Vital (traduction par Louis-François du Bois), (J.-L.-J. Brière, 68 rue Saint-André des Arts, Paris, 1825-1827), Volume 2, pp. 111-113.

    4. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume VI, p. 446; Vol. XII/1, p. 411 & Vol. XII/2, p. 18 (b).


  

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