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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 989 in Wessex.
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  Edmund (of Edmond) II Ironside van Engeland (Wessex, circa 990 - Londen, 30 november 1016) was de zoon van koning Ethelred II.
  
  Na de dood van zijn oudere broer Aethelstan in 1014, kwam Edmund in conflict met zijn vader. Ethelred liet in 1015 twee van Edmunds bondgenoten vermoorden. Een van de slachtoffers was Sigeferth en Ethelred liet zijn weduwe in een abdij opsluiten. Edmund bevrijdde de weduwe en trouwde met haar. Samen met Uhtred van Northumbria bereidde Edmund een opstand voor maar de inval van Knoet de Grote in 1016 gooide alle plannen in de war. Uhtred onderwierp zich aan Knoet en Edmund verzoende zich met zijn vader.
  
  In 1016 overleed de zieke Ethelred en werd Edmund in Londen tot koning gekozen. Edmund wist Knoets troepen van Londen te verdrijven maar werd op 18 oktober vernietigend verslagen in de slag bij Ashingdon. Edmund sloot een overeenkomst met Knoet dat Edmund Wessex zou besturen en Knoet de rest van het land, waarbij de Theems de grens vormde. Het verdrag bepaalde dat als een van beiden zou sterven, de ander geheel Engeland zou erven. Edmund stierf nog in 1016 en werd begraven in de abdij van Glastonbury. Knoet de Grote volgde hem zoals afgesproken op.
  
  Edmund trouwde in 1015 met Ealdgyth Morcarsdotter. Zij kregen twee zoons: Edmund en Edward Ætheling. De kinderen werden in 1016 door Knoet naar Zweden gezonden om daar te worden gedood. Koning Olof II van Zweden stuurde ze echter naar Kiev, met Andreas I van Hongarije zouden ze in 1046 naar Hongarije zijn getrokken. Edmund zou daar zijn overleden.

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  Edmund Ironside or Edmund II (Old English: Eadmund II Isen-Healf; c. 988/993 – 30 November 1016) was king of England from 23 April to 18 October 1016 and of Wessex from 23 April to 30 November 1016. His cognomen "Ironside" is not recorded until 1057, but may have been contemporary. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it was given to him "because of his valour" in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great.[1] He fought five battles against the Danes, ending in defeat against Cnut on 18 October at the Battle of Assandun, after which they agreed to divide the kingdom, Edmund taking Wessex and Cnut the rest of the country. Edmund died shortly afterwards on 30 November, and Cnut became the king of all England.
  
  Edmund was a signatory to charters from 993. He was the third of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu, who was probably the daughter of Earl Thored of Northumbria. His elder brothers were Æthelstan and Egbert (died c. 1005), and younger ones, Eadred, Eadwig and Edgar.[1] His mother died around 1000,[2] after which his father remarried, this time to Emma of Normandy, who had two sons, Edward the Confessor and Alfred.
  Early life
  
  Æthelstan probably did not approve of the increasing influence of ealdorman Eadric Streona from 1007, and he seems to have formed a friendship with Sigeferth and Morcar, two of the leading thegns of the Five Boroughs of the East Midlands.[3] Æthelstan and Edmund were close, and they probably felt threatened by Emma's ambitions for her sons.[4] The Life of Edward the Confessor, written fifty years later, claimed that when Emma was pregnant with him, all Englishmen promised that if the child was a boy they would accept him as king.[1]
  
  When Sweyn Forkbeard seized the throne at the end of 1013 and Æthelred fled to France, the brothers do not appear to have followed him, but stayed in England. Æthelstan died in June 1014 and left his brother estates and a sword which had belonged to king Offa of Mercia.[1] His will also reflected the close relationship between the brothers and the nobility of the east midlands.[5]
  Struggle for power
  
  Sweyn died in February 1014, and the Five Boroughs accepted his son Cnut, who married a kinswoman of Sigeferth and Morcar, as king. However, Æthelred returned to England and launched a surprise attack which defeated the Vikings and forced Cnut to flee England. In 1015 Sigeferth and Morcar came to an assembly in Oxford, probably hoping for a royal pardon, but they were murdered by Eadric Streona. King Æthelred then ordered that Sigeferth's widow, Ealdgyth, be seized and brought to Malmesbury Abbey, but Edmund seized and married her in defiance of his father, probably to consolidate his power base in the east midlands.[6] He then received the submission of the people of the Five Boroughs. At the same time, Cnut launched a new invasion of England. In late 1015 Edmund raised an army, possibly assisted by his wife's and mother's links with the midlands and the north, but the Mercians under Eadric Streona joined the West Saxons in submitting to Cnut. In early 1016 the army assembled by Edmund dispersed when Æthelred did not appear to lead it, probably due to illness. Edmund then raised a new army and in conjunction with Earl Uhtred of Northumbria ravaged Eadric Streona's Mercian territories, but when Cnut occupied Northumbria Uhtred submitted to him, only to be killed by Cnut. Edmund went to London.[1]
  King of England
  Arms of Edmund Ironside, as imagined by Matthew Paris in the first half of the 13th century
  
  Æthelred died on 23 April 1016, and the citizens and councillors in London chose Edmund as king and probably crowned him. He then mounted a last-ditch effort to revive the defence of England. While the Danes laid siege to London, Edmund headed for Wessex, where the people submitted to him and he gathered an army. He fought inconclusive battles against the Danes and their English supporters at Penselwood in Somerset and Sherston in Wiltshire. He then raised the siege of London and defeated the Danes near Brentford. They renewed the siege while Edmund went to Wessex to raise further troops, returning to again relieve London, defeat the Danes at Otford, and pursue Cnut into Kent. Eadric Streona now went over to Edmund, but at the decisive Battle of Assandun on 18 October, Eadric and his men fled and Cnut decisively defeated Edmund. There may have been one further battle in the Forest of Dean, after which the two kings negotiated a peace dividing the country between them. Edmund received Wessex while Cnut took Mercia and probably Northumbria.[1]
  Death
  
  Shortly afterwards, on 30 November 1016, King Edmund died, probably in London. Cnut was now able to seize control as king of England. Edmund was buried at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset. His burial site is now lost. During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, any remains of a monument or crypt were destroyed. The location of his body is unknown.
  Heirs
  
  Edmund had two children by Ealdgyth, Edward the Exile and Edmund. According to John of Worcester, Cnut sent them to the king of Sweden to be murdered, but the king instead sent them to Hungary, where Edmund died but Edward prospered. He returned to England in 1057 only to die within days of his arrival.[7] His son Edgar the Ætheling was briefly proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but submitted to William the Conqueror.
  Reputation
  
  In the view of M. K. Lawson, the intensity of Edmund's struggle against the Danes in 1016 is only matched by Alfred the Great's in 871, and contrasts with Æthelred's failure. Edmund's success in raising one army after another suggests that there was little wrong with the organs of government under competent leadership. He was "probably a highly determined, skilled and indeed inspiring leader of men". Cnut visited his tomb on the anniversary of his death and laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on it to assist in his salvation, peacocks symbolising resurrection

• Hij is overleden op 30 november 1016 in Londen, hij was toen 27 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.
• Een kind van Ethelread "the Unready" van Wessex en Aelgifu van York
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 26 december 2012.

Gezin van Edmund II "Ironside" van Wessex

Hij is getrouwd met Ealdgyth van Earngrim.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1010, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.Bron 3

Kind(eren):

1. Edmund van Wessex  1016-????
2. Eduard Aetheling "the Exile" van Wessex  1016-1057 

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