King Edmund Ironside^{[1, 2]}

989 - 1016  (27 years)

• Name	Edmund Ironside
  Prefix	King
  Born	989  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Nov 1016  [3]
  Person ID	I1956	Schuerman-Wood-Worden
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2010

  
  

  Father	King Aethelred II,   b. Abt 968,   d. 23 Apr 1016  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Mother	Aelfgifu,   d. 1002
  Married	985  [4]
  Family ID	F845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ealdgyth,   d. Aft 1016
  Children	1. Edward Aetheling,   b. 1016,   d. 19 Apr 1057  (Age 41 years)
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2023
  Family ID	F844	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  King of England, 1016. On the death of his father in April 1016, he assumed responsibility for repelling the forces of Cnut. After some successes, he was defeated in the Autumn at Ashington in Essex. Cnut left Edmund in control of Wessex, but when Edmund died in November, Cnut became king throughout England.

  
  

• Sources

  [S103] Oxford Companion to British History, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 327. [S102] Henry Project (website), Baldwin, Stewart , (sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/henry.htm). [S135] Ancestral Roots of American Colonists, Weis, F. L., (8th ed., Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 2004), line 1:19. [S135] Ancestral Roots of American Colonists, Weis, F. L., (8th ed., Baltimore: Gen. Pub. Co., 2004), line 1:18.