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2 days ago · Prince Edmund remained in London, still unsubdued behind its walls, and was elected king after the death of Æthelred on 23 April 1016. Siege of London Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris.
5 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’.
2 days 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.
5 days ago · Sir Edmund Ironside, the youngest major general in the British army at 37, makes a brief appearance but is not easily forgotten.
4 days ago · Canute the Dane was chosen as king at Southampton; but the Londoners were so rich, free, and powerful that they held a rival gemot, and with one voice elected the Saxon atheling Edmund Ironside, who was crowned by Archbishop Lyfing within the city, and very probably at St. Paul's. Canute, enraged at the Londoners, at once sailed for London with ...
5 days ago · Three kings, Edmund I (d. 946), Edgar I (d. 975), and Edmund II Ironside (d. 1016) were buried within its walls, and in the later 12th century the discovery of bones identified as those of King Arthur added a fourth royal connection.
3 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.
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