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Edmund Ironside

King of the English, Wessex dynasty

8 dated entries naming Edmund Ironside, drawn from 7 separate years between 990 CE and 1100 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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10th century

  • 990Edmund II (Ironside), king of England (d. 1016)source
  • 991Edmund Ironside King of England in 1016 (approximate date) (d. 1016)source

11th century

  • 1016April 23 – Æthelred the Unready, king of England, dies after a 38-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Edmund II "Ironside".source
  • 1016November 30 – Edmund II "Ironside", king of Englandsource
  • 1053April – Harold Godwinson succeeds his father Godwin as earl of Wessex. He invites the exiled Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II, to return in the hope that he can claim the English throne from King Edward the Confessor.source
  • 1057April 19 – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II (Ironside)source
  • 1067Spring – King William I (the Conqueror) returns to Normandy and takes with him Edgar Ætheling (grandson of Edmund Ironside), Archbishop Stigand, and the brothers Morcar and Edwin.source
  • 1100November 11 – King Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of King Malcolm III and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.source

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