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Showing posts with label Edmund Ironside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmund Ironside. Show all posts
01 June 2024

Edward's Path to the Throne

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Æthelred the Unready had several children by two wives. His seventh son (and first by his second wife, Emma of Normandy ), was named Edward...
24 May 2024

King Cnut of England

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After over a year of fighting for control of England, Cnut of Denmark and Edmund Ironside made an agreement: Edmund would have London and e...
23 May 2024

Cnut's Battles

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Svein Forkbeard was King of Denmark and King of England, but when he died in 1014, his son Cnut (c.990 - 1035) was denied succeeding him in...
19 November 2015

We Hardly Knew Ye...

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Queen Elizabeth II of England recently passed a milestone, becoming the longest-reigning monarch of England. I am not certain of the "...
20 October 2014

The Battle of Assandun

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Edmund Ironside meets King Canute (Matthew Paris) Fifty years before the Norman Invasion changed the culture of Britain, the island (or...
22 August 2014

Gisela of Hungary

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Window at Cathedral of St. Michael in Veszprém, Hungary, where Gisela is buried Gisela (985 - 1065) was mentioned as the wife of King (...
26 November 2013

The King That Almost Was

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I mentioned here that, after the Battle of Hastings, another claimant to the throne of England had to flee to Scotland in the face of Wil...
15 October 2013

1066: The Other New King

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Edgar and his sister, St. Margaret, landing at Wearmouth after their ship was blown off course Yesterday was the anniversary of the Ba...