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Edmund I or Eadmund I (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.
May 22, 2024 · Edmund I was the king of the English (939–946), who recaptured areas of northern England that had been occupied by the Vikings. He was the son of the West Saxon king Edward the Elder (reigned 899–924) and Eadgifu and the half brother of King Athelstan (reigned 924–939), under whom the political.
King Edmund I. During his six years as monarch, Edmund did his upmost to maintain the territorial, diplomatic and administrative legacy left behind by his half-brother Athelstan. Sadly his efforts were to be curtailed when, on the Feast of St Augustine in May 946 he was stabbed to death in a brawl…. Following in the footsteps of his older ...
Edmund I or Eadmund I was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.
Jun 28, 2017 · Edmund I (r. 939-946) When Athelstan died without immediate successors, his half brother Edmund successfully suppressed rebellions by the Mercian Danes. 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. Edmund I's position in the genealogical ...
Edmund I, known as 'the Elder' or the Magnificent, was born circa 921, the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva. As a sixteen year old, he had fought with distinction beside his elder half-brother, King Athelstan, at the Battle of Brunanburh against a combined force of Scots and Vikings. Edmund was around eighteen when he ...
Edmund I (922 – 26 May 946), the Elder, the Deed-Doer or the Magnificent, was King of England from 939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and a half-brother of Athelstan. Edmund was the first king to start his rule with a united England. Early in his rule, the Norse king, Olaf Guthfrithson, took back much of the north of ...
King Edmund I ruled England from 27th October 939 to 26th May 946. He was known as ‘the Deed-doer’, ‘the Elder’, ‘the Magnificent’ or ‘the Just’. He was Edward the Elder’s son, grandson of Alfred the Great, and the half-brother of Æthelstan. He came to power when Æthelstan died.
Edmund the Magnificent (Edmund I or Edmund the Elder) was the son of Edward the Elder and grandson of Alfred the Great. He ruled from AD 939 - 946.
King Edmund I, also known as Edmund the Magnificent or Edmund the Elder, was a 9th-century king of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia. He was a member of the Wuffingas dynasty, and is believed to have ruled from about 855 to 870.
