King of England Edward "The Confessor"

Abt 1005 - 1066  (61 years)

• Name	Edward "The Confessor"
  Title	King of England
  Birth	Abt 1005	Islip, Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Jan 1066	London, England
  Burial	Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I8697	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	King of England Æthelred II "The Unready",   b. 968, Wessex, England d. 23 Apr 1016, London, Middlesex, England (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	of Normandy Emma,   b. Abt 982, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Apr 1002	Winchester Cathedral, England
  Family ID	F4286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	of Wessex Edith,   b. Abt 1020   d. 18 Dec 1075, Palace of Westminster, London, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	23 Jan 1045
  Family ID	F3415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1005 - Islip, Oxfordshire, England Death - 5 Jan 1066 - London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Known as "the Confessor", he was born around c. 1003/4 (by 1005) at Islip, Oxon. When he succeeded his half-brother King Hartacanute, on the 8th of June, 1042, the crown of England reverted from the usurping Dainsh dynasty to the line of Cerdic once more, and for the last tiem. Edward was crowned on the 3rd of April, 1043, at Winchester Cathedral. He died on the 4th or 5th of January, 1066, at the Palace of Westminster, and was buried in the new Westminster Abbey, built by his command and only recently consecrated. He was succeeded by Harold, Earl of Wessex, his brother-in-law, to whom he left his throne, with the suport of the Witan, there being no adult claimant to the crown of the line of Cerdic. Edward and Edith's marriage was purely platonic, the King being unwilling, for religious reasons, to comsummate it, hense there were no children. His talent lay in the building of churches. On the 7th of February, 1161, edward the Confessor was canonised, thus becoming the only king of England to be made a saint.