Name | Saint Edward, Edward the Confessor (c. 1003/5 – 1066). King of England (1042-1066). Canonized by 1161. |
Family | House of Wessex. Father is Æthelred the Unready. Mother is Emma of Normandy. Married to Edith of Wessex (1045). Children: none. |
Life | Takes his mother’s properties (1043). Exile (1013, 1016). Dismisses his wife Edith as he outlaws her entire family (1051). Vita Ædwardi regis (c. 1067). |
Published on March 21, 2020
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