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See also:EDMUND I ., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:English (d. 946), was the son of Eadgifu, third wife of See also:Edward the See also:Elder, and See also:half-See also:brother to his predecessor;Ethelstan. He succeeded to the See also:throne in 940, but had already played an active See also:part in the previous reign, especially when he fought by the See also:side of his half-brother in the See also:great See also:battle of Brunanburh.
In the first See also:year of his reign Edmund had trouble with See also:Olaf or Anlaf Sihtricsson, called Cuaran. The latter had just crossed from See also:Ireland and had been chosen king by the Northumbrians, who threw off their See also:allegiance to Edmund. Anlaf took See also:York, besieged See also:Northampton and destroyed See also:Tamworth, but was met by Edmund at See also:Leicester. The enemy escaped, but a peaceful See also:settlement was made by the See also:good offices of See also:Odo of See also:Canterbury and See also:Wulfstan of York. See also:Simeon of See also:Durham states that a See also:division of the See also:kingdom was now made, whereby Edmund took See also:England See also:south of Watling See also:Street and Anlaf the See also:rest. This division seems incredible, especially in See also:face of the poem inserted in the See also:chronicle (sub See also:anno 942). There can be little doubt that the See also:story told there of the reconquest of See also:Northern See also:Mercia by Edmund refers to the compact with Anlaf, made as a result of the See also:campaign, and it is probable that Simeon's statement is a wide exaggeration, due in part at least to a confused See also:reminiscence of the earlier pact between See also:Alfred and See also:Guthrum. All Mercia south of a See also:line from See also:Dore (near See also:Sheffield), through Whitwell to the See also:Humber, was now in Edmund's hands, and the five Danish boroughs, which had for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time been exposed to raids from the See also:Norwegian See also:kings of See also:Northumbria, were now freed from that fear. The See also:peace was confirmed by the See also:baptism of Kings Anlaf and Rwgenald, Edmund See also:standing as See also:sponsor, but in 944 or 945 the peace was broken and Edmund expelled Anlaf and Rwgenald from Northumbria.
In 945 Edmund ravaged See also:Strathclyde, and entrusted it all to See also:Malcolm, king of See also:Scotland, " on See also:condition that he should be his See also:fellow-worker by See also:sea and See also:land," the See also:object of this policy being apparently to detach the king of Scots from any possible confederacy such as had been formed in 937.
On the 26th of May 946 Edmund's brief but energetic reign came to a tragic conclusion when he was stabbed at the royal See also:villa of Pucklechurch, in See also:Gloucestershire, by an exiled robbernamed Liofa, who had returned to the See also:court unbidden. Edmund, the " See also:deed-doer " as the chronicle calls him, " Edmundus magnificus " as See also:Florence of See also:Worcester describes him, perhaps translating the Saxon epithet, was buried at See also:Glastonbury, an See also:abbey which he had entrusted in 943 to the famous See also:Dunstan.
Edmund was twice married; first to ;Elfgifu, the See also:mother of Eadwig and See also:Edgar; 'second to ;Ethelflxd " aet Damerhame " (i.e. of Damerham, Co. Wilts). ;Elfgifu died in 944, according to Ethelwerd.
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