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Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside GCB CMG DSO (6 May 1880 – 22 September 1959) was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War . Ironside joined the Royal Artillery in 1899, and served throughout the Second Boer War.
- 1899–1940
- British Army
Sep 2, 2022 · Edmund Ironside, the son of Aethelred the Unready, found himself at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon resistance to the incoming threats from the Vikings led by the famous and powerful King Cnut. Edmund was born to the King of England, Aethelred the Unready and his first wife, Aelgifu.
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Edmund Ironside ( c. 990 – 30 November 1016; Old English: Ēadmund, Old Norse: Játmundr, Latin: Edmundus; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of York.
The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Cnut landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Assandun) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Cnut.
Jun 15, 2023 · Born into a tumultuous era of warfare and political intrigue, King Edmund II became a beacon of heroic resistance, a warrior-king who personified the struggle of a divided kingdom against the relentless onslaught of foreign invaders. Read on to discover the astonishing story of Edmund Ironside.
Apr 2, 2015 · King Edmund Ironside. Aethelred only led his army in person three times during his reign. Not only that, he didn’t appoint loyal and competent leaders to fight for him. He was all too ready to pay monstrous sums of Danegeld to get the Vikings to leave England.
Apr 27, 2016 · Had Edmund lived, the course of English history might have been different. Refreshed and re-armed after the battle of Ashingdon, Edmund could have led an army successfully against the Danes in the north, driven Cnut back to his Scandinavian homeland and reunited England under West Saxon rule.
