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Edmund Ironside (c. 990 – 30 November 1016; Old English: Ēadmund, Old Norse: Játmundr, Latin: Edmundus; sometimes also known as Edmund II [a]) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. [1] He was the son of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu of York.
The Battle of Sherston was fought in Sherston, England, from 25 to 26 June 1016. between the forces of King Edmund Ironside and Danish king Cnut as a part of Cnut's invasion of England. The West Saxons, fighting for Edmund, were victorious against the Danish and their English allies. [1] [2]
Two opposing assemblies gathered to name his successor; an assembly of London citizens declared Edmund king and the larger Witan at Southampton declared Cnut as king. [2] During the autumn of 1016, King Edmund raised an army consisting of West-Saxon troops as well as men from Southern England to defeat a Danish force led by King Cnut that had ...
"The Brief but Brilliant Reign of Edmund Ironside". History Today. 66 (3): 41– 45. McDermott, David (16 March 2020). "Wessex and the Reign of Edmund II Ironside". The land of the English King. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-42189-9. North, Richard; Goeres, Erin; Finlay, Alison (21 June 2022). Anglo-Danish Empire: A Companion to the Reign of King Cnut ...
Summer – Battle of Brentford (near London): Edmund Ironside defeats the Danes under King Cnut. [2] July 6 – Battle of Pontlevoy: French forces of Fulk III and Herbert I defeat Odo II which determines the balance of power in the Loire Valley. [3] October 18 – Battle of Assandun: Cnut defeats Edmund Ironside, leaving the latter as king of ...
Great-great-great-grandson of Edmund Ironside: Henry II named his son, Henry the Young King (1155–1183), as co-ruler with him but this was a Norman custom of designating an heir, and the younger Henry did not outlive his father and rule in his own right, so he is not counted as a monarch on lists of kings. Richard I [42] Richard the Lionheart
Ironside battles Canute, an illustration of the actual history the play is based on.From the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris, in the Parker Library, Cambridge.. Edmund Ironside, or War Hath Made All Friends is an anonymous Elizabethan play that depicts the life of the Anglo-Saxon king Edmund II of England.
Æthelred and his son Edmund Ironside attempted to resist the Vikings in 1016, but after their deaths the Danish Cnut the Great and his sons ruled until 1042. The House of Wessex then briefly regained power under Æthelred's son Edward the Confessor , but lost it after the Confessor's reign, with the Norman Conquest in 1066.