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Edward the Confessor. Edward the Confessor [a] [b] ( c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great 's son – and his own half ...
- 8 June 1042 – 5 January 1066
- Emma of Normandy
St. Edward's shrine stands in its chapel behind the high altar, the chapel has a cosmetic floor of marble, semi-precious stone and glass similar to that in front of the High Altar, which has recently been restored. On the western side of the Chapel is a stone screen with fourteen scenes of events, real and legendary, in the life of the Confessor.
Edward, called the Confessor, was born at Islip in Oxfordshire between 1002 and 1005, the son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. Driven from England by the Danes, and spending his exile in Normandy, the story goes that Edward vowed that if he should return safely to his kingdom, he would make a pilgrimage to St Peter's, Rome.
The tombs of Edward I, Eleanor of Castile, Edward III, Philippa of Hainault, Richard II and Anne of Bohemia are all in St Edward the Confessor's chapel. When Henry V died in 1422 he was buried near to the Saint and above his tomb was built a chantry chapel in which Holy Communion is still celebrated every year on 25th October, St Crispin’s ...
Edward died on 7th July 1307 at Burgh on the Sands in Cumberland and his embalmed body was taken first to Waltham Abbey in Essex before being brought to Westminster for burial in the chapel of St Edward the Confessor on 27th October. His large grey marble tomb chest, in which his bones lie, has no effigy or decoration and the, now rather faint ...
The tomb of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey. Edward's coffin was once again opened by Henry II, during this second exhumation, the King's burial robes were removed and the pilgrim's ring he was found to be wearing was appropriated by Henry II. Edward was canonized in 1161.
Dec 6, 2005 · Archaeologists believe they have found the royal burial tomb of Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey. The radar study unearthed the tomb of the British Saint 1,000 years after his birth, as ...
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