The Skaggs-Files - of England, Edmund

of England, Edmund

Birth Name	of England, Edmund
Gender	male
Age at Death	unknown

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Birth	1016			1
				1
Death

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date	Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father	of England, Edmund II	989	1016-11-30
Mother	, Ealgyth
	of England, Edmund	1016
Brother	of England, Edward	1017	1057
Brother	Atheling, Henry I

Pedigree

of England, Edmund II
1. , Ealgyth
  1. of England, Edmund
  2. of England, Edward
  3. Atheling, Henry I

Ancestors

of England, Edmund
*1016
+...

of England, Edmund II
*989
+1016-11-30

of England, Ethelred II
*968
+1016-04-23

of England, Edgar
*944
+975-07-08

of Devon, Aelfrthryth
*947
+1000

Gunnarsson, Elfreda of Mercia
*963
+1002-02-00

Gunnarsson, Thored of York
*942
+...

, Ealgyth
*
+...

Source References

Edmund II, called Ironside (981?-1016), Saxon king of the English (1016), son of King Ethelred the Unready. When Ethelred died, Edmund was chosen king by the people of London, but Canute II, king of Denmark, who was leading an invasion of England, secured the support of the council (witenagemot) at Southampton and of Edric (flourished 1001-17), Ethelred's son-in-law. Edmund met the Danes in battle, winning several engagements and relieving Canute's siege of London. He was defeated at Assandun (now Ashington), however, through the treachery of Edric, who had pretended to desert Canute. A truce was arranged between Canute and Edmund; Edmund was permitted to rule the south of England until his death later in the year, when it reverted to Canute.