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• Roepnaam Edmund I "The Magnificent".
• Hij is geboren rond 922 in Wessex (West Saxony), England.
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  Edmund I/Old English: Eadmund / the Elder/ the Deed-doer/ the Just/ the Magnificent was the twelfth of his father's fifteen children. The first of the six Boy Kings, he reigned from 939 to 946. He had to meet a general uprising of the Danes of Mercia as well as those of the North. In the suppression of this he showed himself to be a great statesman as well as a great warrior. Scots at this time joined the English whenever they were afraid of the Danes, and joined the Danes whenever they were afraid of the English. Edmund made it to be the interest of the Scottish King permanently to join the English. The southern part of the kingdom of Strathclyde had for some time been under the English Kings. In 945 Edmund took the remainder, but gave it to Malcolm on condition that he should be his fellow worker by sea and land. The king of the Scots thus entered into a position of dependent alliance towards Edmund. A great step was thus taken; the dominant powers in the island were to be English and Scots, not English and Danes. Edmund thought it worth while to conciliate the Scottish Celts rather than to endeavor to conquer them. One of Edmund's last political movements is his role in the restoration of Louis IV of France to the throne. Louis, son of Charles the Simple and his Anglo-Saxon queen Eadgifu, had resided at the West-Saxon court for some time until 936, when he returned to be crowned king of France. In the summer of 945, he was captured by the Norsemen of Rouen and subsequently released by Duke Hugh the Great, who however, held him in custody. The chronicler Richerus claims that Eadgifu wrote letters both to Edmund and to Otto I in which she requested support for her son; Edmund responded to her plea by sending angry threats to Hugh, who brushed them aside. Flodoard's Annales, reports “ Edmund, king of the English, sent messengers to Duke Hugh about the restoration of King Louis, and the duke accordingly made a public agreement with his nephews and other leading men of his kingdom. Hugh, duke of the Franks, allying himself with Hugh the Black, son of Richard, and the other leading men of the kingdom, restored to the kingdom King Louis. ” The result of Edmund's statesmanship was soon seen, but he did not live to gather its fruits. On May 26, 946 an exiled outlaw named Lief/Leofa had taken a seat at a banquet in the hall where Edmund and his nobles were celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day in Pucklechurch (South Gloucestershire). Edmund spotted Lief in the crowd, attempted to drag him out by his hair but Edmund and Leofa were both killed. Edmund's sister Eadgyth, wife to Otto I, died (earlier) the same year. Edmund was succeeded as king by his brother Edred, king from 946 until 955. Edmund's sons later ruled England as: #Eadwig of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kingdom of Kent from 957 until his death on October 1 959. #Edgar of England, king of only Mercia and Northumbria from 957 until his brother's death in 959, then king of England from 959 until 975.

• Hij is overleden op 26 mei 946 in Pucklechurch, Dorset, England. Hij was ongeveer 23-24 jaar oud.

  Oorzaak: Stabbed to death by a robber

• Hij is begraven in Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England.
• Een kind van Edward the Elder "The Unconquered" van Engeland xx en Ædgifu of Kent

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Hij had een relatie met Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury (of England).

Kind(eren):

1. Ēadgār "the Peacable" King of England  943-975 

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