of England Edmund "The Magnificent"

921 - 946  (25 years)

• Name	Edmund "The Magnificent"
  Title	of England
  Birth	921	Wessex
  Gender	Male
  FATHER+DIED+WHEN+HE++WAS+A+TODDLER	17 Jul 924	London, England
  	Edmund was only 2 or 3 when his father died, he grew up during the reign and in the court of his older half brother Æthelstan.
  BATTLE+OF+BRUNANBURH	937	Bromborough, Cheshire, England
  	King Æthelstan and his younger brother Edmund, with the Saxon army of Wessex and Mercia, defeated the combined allied invading army of Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin; Constantine II, King of Scotland, and Owain, King of Strathclyde., in the Battle of
  SUCCEDED++%C3%86THELSTAN+TO+BECOME+KING+OF+THE+ENGLISH	27 Oct 939
  	Upon the death of his older 1/2 brother Æthelstan, Edmund succeeded to become King of the English, he was 18 years old.
  Title of Nobility	From 27 October 0939 to 26 May 0946
  	King of the English
  A+KINGDOM+DIVIDED	Nov 939
  	Edmund succeeded Æthelstan to become King of the English but the men of York (and the rest of the North) chose Olaf Guthfrithson, the Viking king of Dublin, to be their king. It was not until 954 that Eadred finally restored Anglo-Saxon control of the w
  Cause of Death on 26 May 946.	Stabbed to death by a robber at Pucklechurch (Gloucestershire), on St Augustine's Day, while attempting to defend his steward from the attack.
  Clan Name	House of Wessex
  _FSFTID	LCBD-GVR
  Death	26 May 946	Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England
  Burial	Aft 26 May 946	Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
  Person ID	I41191	My Genealogy | Gent Tree received from familysearch
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	King of England Edward 'the Elder',   b. 874, Wessex d. 17 Jul 924, Farndon, Cheshire, England (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Eadgifu of Kent,   b. 896, Kent, England d. 25 Aug 968, Canterbury, Kent, England (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F18173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elgiva England,   b. Abt 922, Wessex d. DECEASED
  Children	1. the All-Fair, King of England Eadwig,   b. Abt 941, Wessex d. 1 Oct 959, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (Age 18 years)   2. of England Edgar "the Peaceful",   b. 7 Aug 943, Kent, Kent, England d. 8 Jul 975, Glastonbury, Somerset, England (Age 31 years)
  Family ID	F17096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury,   b. 6 Jan 922, Wessex d. 18 May 944, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, United Kingdom (Age 22 years)
  Marriage	Abt 940
  Family ID	F17098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2023