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Edward the Confessor [a] [b] (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex , he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066.
St Edward's Crown is the coronation crown of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. [2] Named after Saint Edward the Confessor, versions of it have traditionally been used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. It is normally on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London.
After Edward's death, Edith read the lives of English saints and gave information about St Kenelm to his hagiographer, Goscelin. [17] She died at Winchester on 18 December 1075. [ 3 ] Matthew Paris records a tradition that her death brought an end to an illness from which she had been suffering at some length. [ 18 ]
Chariton the Confessor, 3rd-4th-century saint; Edward the Confessor (1003/1005–1066), one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, Roman Catholic saint; Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497–1546), early champion of the Protestant Reformation; George the Confessor (died 814), Bishop of Antioch in Pisidia
Edward, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, was buried with the ring at Westminster Abbey in 1066. Edward the Confessor holding his sapphire coronation ring in The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395–1399 [3] It was reputedly taken from the ring when Edward's body was re-interred at Westminster Abbey in 1163. [4]
The Northumbrian Revolt of 1065 was a rebellion in the last months of the reign of Edward the Confessor against the earl of Northumbria, Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex. Tostig, who had been earl since 1055, is said to have provoked his nobles to rise against him by his harsh administration of justice, raising of ...
Articles relating to Edward the Confessor (c. 1003-1066, reigned 1042-1066) and his reign. Pages in category "Edward the Confessor" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Edward the Confessor, supposed issuer of the Leges Edwardi Confessoris. The title Leges Edwardi Confessoris, or Laws of Edward the Confessor, refers to a collection of laws, purporting to represent English law in the time of Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066), as recited to the Norman invader king William I in 1070, but which was not composed until probably the early years of the reign ...