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Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869) [note 1] was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death. Few historical facts about Edmund are known, as the kingdom of East Anglia was devastated by the Vikings , who destroyed any contemporary evidence of his reign.
Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters .
Saint Edmund may refer to: Saint Edmund the Martyr (d. 869), king of East Anglia who was venerated as a martyr saint soon after his death at the hands of Vikings; Saint Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; Saint Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr
It was a centre of pilgrimage as the burial place of the Anglo-Saxon martyr-king Saint Edmund, killed by the Great Heathen Army of Danes in 869. The ruins of the abbey church and most other buildings are merely rubble cores, but two very large medieval gatehouses survive, as well as two secondary medieval churches built within the abbey complex.
Edmund was born circa 1174, possibly on 20 November (the feast of St Edmund the Martyr), in Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), 7 miles south of Oxford, England. Edmund had two sisters and at least one brother. [1] "Rich" was an epithet sometimes given to his wealthy merchant father, Reynold. [2]
Edmund of East Anglia, 869. [69] Ludmila of Bohemia, 921; Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars; Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, 935; King Edward the Martyr, 979. [70] Adalbert of Prague, 997 by Old Prussians; Bruno of Querfurt, 1009; Jovan Vladimir, 1014; Olaf II of Norway, 1030 in the Battle of Stiklestad [71] Gerard of Csanád, 1046 ...
Edmund I or Eadmund I [a] (920/921 – 26 May 946) 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.
Edward the Martyr (c. 962 – 18 March 978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed in 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar (r. 959–975). 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 .