“was to rule, not to wrangle; and it would be a poor compensation that we had triumphed in a dispute, whilst we had lost an empire.”
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Edmund I
Edmund I or Eadmund I was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great. Edmund was crowned king after his eldest half-brother, King Æthelstan, died childless in 939. He had two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, who were young children when he was killed in a brawl with…
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politics · King of the English from 939 to 946 · sovereign · monarch · also Edmund I, Eadmund, Edmund the Magnificent, Eadmund I, Edmund the Elder, Edmund the Just
Born 0920 · Died 26 May 0946 · Q190166
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2026· 4 entries
“I hope I have not shown much temper.”
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“to carry their common plan into execution with all the power and authority of the State”
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1958· 1 entry
“we cannot falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.”
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1904· 1 entry
“The Political Doctrines of Edmund Burke”
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0946· 1 entry
Died 0946-05-26.
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0939· 1 entry
Career landmark: monarch of England (0939–0946).
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0920· 1 entry
Born 0920.
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