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Also Known As Saint Edmund the Martyr
Born 841 or 842
Died November 20, 869
Title / Office king (855-870), East Anglia
Raedwald
king of the East Angles
Sigebert
king of the East Angles
Guthrum
king of Denmark
Ceolwulf
Anglo-Saxon king
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Harold II
Harold II
king of England
Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Edward
king of England [1002?-1066]
St. Bede the Venerable
St. Bede the Venerable
Anglo-Saxon historian
Willibrord, Saint
Saint Willibrord
Anglo-Saxon missionary
Saint Benedict Biscop
English abbot
Cynewulf
English poet
Tostig, earl of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon earl
Offa
Offa
Anglo-Saxon king
Ethelred II, coin, 10th century; in the British Museum.
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
St. Oswald of York
English saint
H. Munro Chadwick
British historian
Edgar The Aetheling
Anglo-Saxon prince
Godiva, Lady
Lady Godiva
Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman
Edward the Elder
Edward
Anglo-Saxon king
Edgar, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library (Vesp. MS. A viii)
Edgar
king of England

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