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Edward the Martyr was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar. On Edgar's death, the succession to the throne was contested between Edward's supporters and those of his younger half-brother, the future King Æthelred the Unready. As they were both children, it is unlikely that they played an active role in the dispute, which was probably b…
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politics · King of the English from 975 to 978 · monarch · also Edward the Martyr, Edward II, Saint Edward, St. Edward, King Edward II, Saint Edward the Martyr
Born 1 January 0962 · Died 18 March 0978 · Q192920
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s mother was a nun at Wilton Abbey whom the King seduced, and Dunstan punished Edgar by imposing a seven-year penance which delayed his coronation. Osbern
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“Long after [Edward] had passed into veneration as a saint it was remembered that his outbursts of rage had alarmed all who knew him ... It may have been partly for this reason that a large number of nobles resolved to promote the election of Æthelred, the younger brother.”
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“s mother was a nun at Wilton Abbey whom the King seduced, and Dunstan punished Edgar by imposing a seven-year penance which delayed his coronation. Osbern”
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Public attention spiked: 8,645 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13.5× the usual 642, with 11 article edits. Editors noted: Churches dedicated to Edward the Martyr
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A High Court hearing ruled that the bones could go to the ROCA Church of St Edward the Martyr, Brookwood, which had been established for the purpose
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Wilson-Claridge met, in his own words, "by divine providence" a Mr Pobjoy, who was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), which agreed to accept the bones on Wilson-Claridge's terms
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The bones were examined by the forensic pathologist Thomas Stowell, who concluded that they were of a young man between the ages of seventeen and nineteen who had suffered injuries consistent with the description of the
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Were probably not the ones believed by contemporaries to be his
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Died 0978-03-18.
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Career landmark: monarch of England (0975–0978).
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Born 0962-01-01.
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