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May 22, 2024 · Edmund II was the king of the English from April 23 to Nov. 30, 1016, surnamed “Ironside” for his staunch resistance to a massive invasion led by the Danish king Canute. The son of King Ethelred II the Unready (reigned 978–1016), Edmund defied his father’s orders by marrying (1015) the widow of one.
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May 8, 2024 · In 1015 he returned and began a long struggle with Aethelred’s son Edmund II Ironside. Earl Uhtred of Northumbria submitted to Canute in 1016 and was murdered in his hall. After Aethelred died in April 1016, the English witan (council) elected Canute king at Southampton, but those councillors who were in London, with the citizens, elected Edmund.
- Dorothy Whitelock
1 day ago · It ended in victory for the Danes, led by Canute (Cnut) the Great, who triumphed over the English army led by King Edmund Ironside. The battle was the conclusion to the Danish reconquest of England. Following his defeat, Edmund was forced to sign a treaty with Canute.
May 25, 2024 · There are numerous academic studies of the Russian civil war and the intervention by Britain, France, the USA, Japan and Poland (among others). Several allied generals published their memoirs- Edmund Ironside the British general on the northern front; Lionel Dunsterville, the British general on the Transcaspian front, Maurice Janin the French ...
4 days ago · Two days later, General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, confided to his diary, ‘[w]e shall have lost practically all our trained soldiers by the next few days—unless a miracle appears to help us’.
4 days ago · Sir Edmund Ironside, the youngest major general in the British army at 37, makes a brief appearance but is not easily forgotten.
2 days ago · Houndsditch, which may be called an indirect tributary of Bishopsgate, though not a dignified place, has a legend of its own. Richard of Cirencester says that here the body of Edric, the murderer of his sovereign Edmund Ironside, was contemptuously thrown by Canute, whom he had raised to the throne.
