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Edward the Confessor [a] [b] (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut ...
The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster (1962, 2nd edition 1992), editor and translator; William I and the Norman Conquest (1965) "Men and their Times" series, edited by A. L. Rowse; Edward the Confessor (1970, 2nd edition 1997, new edition 2011) The English Church, 1066–1154 (1979) The Norman Conquest and Beyond (1983)
He was a relative of King Edward the Confessor as well as being a royal chaplain. [1] During Edward's reign he received the church at Bosham, near Chichester. [2] He was present at the consecration of Westminster Abbey at Christmas 1065. [3] He was a steward for King William I of England during his reign, as well as being a friend of the king. [4]
Stafford, Pauline (1997). Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England, Blackwell ISBN 0-631-16679-3; Stafford, Pauline (2009). 'Edith, Edward's Wife and Queen', pp. 129–138 in Richard Mortimer ed., Edward the Confessor: The Man and the Legend, The Boydell Press ISBN 978-1-84383-436-6
Church of St Edward the Confessor, and the churchyard cross. The parish church of St Edward the Confessor is on Hollow Lane; it is a Grade II* listed building. It was built from the 13th to 15th century. [5] In the churchyard are buried Sir Thomas Wardle (1831–1909) and his wife Elizabeth.
Earl Odda's chapel at Deerhurst. Odda of Deerhurst (before 993 – 31 August 1056) was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman active in the period from 1013 onwards. He became a leading magnate in 1051, following the exile of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his sons and the confiscation of their property and earldoms, when King Edward the Confessor appointed Odda as earl over a portion of the vacated territory.
St Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England St. Edward's Catholic Church , Shamokin, Pennsylvania, United States Churches dedicated to Edward the Martyr
Edward, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, was buried with the ring at Westminster Abbey in 1066. Edward the Confessor holding his sapphire coronation ring in The Wilton Diptych, c. 1395–1399 [3] It was reputedly taken from the ring when Edward's body was re-interred at Westminster Abbey in 1163. [4]