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Jan 7, 2004 · Originally Created by: Connie Nisinger. Added: Jan 7, 2004. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8245405. Source citation. King of England, Catholic and an Orthodox saint. House of Wessex. The only son of King Edgar the Peaceful and his first wife Aethelflead, the date or exact year of his birth are unknown.
Edward the Martyr was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed on 18 March 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar. On Edgar's death, the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As they were both children, it is unlikely that they played an active role in the dispute, which ...
Oct 27, 2023 · King Edward the Martyr or Eadweard II (c. 962 – March 18 978) followed his father Edgar as King of England in 975, but was murdered after a reign of only three years. He was declared a holy martyr that means canonised as Saint Edward the Martyr in 1001. That seemed fair as Edward was thought to be a very good Christian who died for his faith ...
The violence of St. Edward's end, joined to the fact that the party opposed to him had been that of the irreligious, whilst he himself had ever acted as defender of the Church, obtained for him the title of Martyr, which is given to him in all the old English calendars on 18 March, also in the Roman Martyrology.
Mar 30, 2015 · Commemorated: March 18/31 (Martyrdom) and September 3/16 (Local Translation of Relics) St. Edward, one of the most venerated English saints, was the son of the Holy Right-Believing Edgar the Peaceful, King of England, and Queen Ethelfleda who died soon after his birth. According to different sources St. Edward was born either in 959 or in 962/963.
May 26, 2017 · However, jealousy there was, quite a bit, in fact, and so Aethelred got himself some powerful friends and had his half-brother murdered. This is why Edward is called Edward the Martyr. Actually, Aethelred’s powerful friends included the late king’s new wife, Elfrida, who had quite a bit of power in her own right.
Apr 17, 2024 · In the year 978, the teenaged Anglo-Saxon king Edward was murdered while visiting an estate belonging to his 12-year-old half-brother and stepmother. Edward’s half-brother Æthelred (later to be known as “the Unready”) succeeded to the throne, while Edward came to be venerated as a Christian martyr. No one was ever punished for the crime.
