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Edward the Confessor and Edith. 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 ...
Edward was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1161. When his fervent admirer, Henry III, rebuilt Westminster Abbey in the thirteenth century, the Confessor's body was translated to a magnificent shrine which became the centerpiece of the new building. Henry III himself, along with his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall and his two sons helped ...
Edward the Confessor died in January 1066 and was buried in front of the High Altar of his original Norman church of Westminster. His body has been moved several times inside Westminste. The first notable time was when King Henry III built the past king a new shrine, to which Edward was moved to in October 1269.
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