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Apr 25, 2017 · Islip, Cherwell District, Oxfordshire, England. Death. 5 Jan 1066 (aged 63–64) Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England. Burial. Westminster Abbey. Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England Show Map. Plot. The Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, behind the Sanctuary.
The site of the saint's original grave has remained a mystery since his body was moved twice before being laid to rest at the shrine. The original tomb, located during a recent archaeological study at the Abbey using the latest ground-penetrating radar, was located ten feet behind the modern-day altar, directly under the area of the shrine
- Marriage to Edith
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- Burial and Shrine
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Edward married Edith, daughter of Godwin(e), Earl of Wessex and his Danish wife Gytha, on 23rd January 1045. One of her brothers was Harold Godwinson, who succeeded Edward as king. She was educated in the nunnery at Wilton near Salisbury (where she rebuilt the church and probably retired to after Edward's death). All surviving references to Edith s...
After returning from exile in France Edward was crowned at Winchester in 1042. Edith had her own coronation as consort.
He died sometime on the night of 4-5th January 1066. The burial procession from Westminster Hall to the Abbey, where prayers were said all day and the following night, is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry. He was buried on 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany before the High Altar. According to Prior Osbert of Clare's life of Edward William the Conqueror h...
Edward the Confessor. The Man and the Legendedited by Richard Mortimer, 2009 Edward the Confessorby Frank Barlow, London 1970 The Cosmatesque mosaics of Westminster Abbey. The pavements and royal tombs...by Warwick Rodwell & David Neal, 2019 Life of St Edward the Confessorby St Aelred of Rievaulx translated into English by Fr. Jerome Bertram, 1997 ...
The site of the saint's original grave has remained a mystery since his body was moved twice in the 12th and 13th centuries, finally being laid to rest at the tiered shrine at the altar of the...
He was buried the following day, 6th January - the Feast of the Epiphany - before the High Altar of the church that he had built. There he rested for almost one hundred years until, on 13th October 1163, St Edward's body was moved – or translated – to a shrine specially prepared for it in the church. Funeral procession.
Jan 28, 2020 · Edward the Confessor, also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, reigned as king of England from 1042 to 1066 CE. Edward was reliant on the powerful Godwine...
Edward was the son of Ethelred II 'the Unready' and Emma, the daughter of Richard I of Normandy. The family was exiled in Normandy after the Danish invasion of 1013, but returned the following ...
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