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	Saint Edward - St. Edward the Confessor Anglican Church
		Edward's mother Emma then married Canute, agreeing that her future children by King Canute would be the heirs to the throne.
		Edward was finally able to sail back to England, where he was to live for the remainder of his life.
		Edward was canonized in 1161: he is referred to as St. Edward the Confessor; 'Confessor' denoted someone whose life proclaimed their faith, but whose death was not a martyr's death.
	www.upsdell.com /StEdwardTheConfessor/saint.htm (1192 words)

	Edward the Confessor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward was the son of King Ethelred II the Unready (reigned 978-1016) and Emma, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy.
		Edward lived in exile in Normandy until 1041, when he returned to the London court of his half brother (Emma was their mother), King Hardecanute.
		Edward succeeded to the throne in 1042 and quickly seized the property of his mother, who had plotted against his accession.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/E/Edward_the_Confessor.html (280 words)

	Edward the Confessor
		The king Ethelred the Unready, Edward and his brother Alfred were taken to Normandy by their mother Emma, sister of Normandy's duke Richard II, to escape the Danish invasion of England in 1013.
		Edward was known as the last English King, but it should be noted that 'English' (or Englisc) at the time meant descended from the Anglo-Saxons, not native to England.
		Edward was canonised after his death, due to his benevolence to the church and the miracles supposed to have happened at his grave.
	www.dymock.org /Edward_the_Confessor.htm (618 words)

	Biography of Edward the Confessor
		Edward was the son of King Ethelred II and Emma, the daughter of Duke Richard of Normandy.
		Edward the Confessor was born in 1002 in Oxfordshire in England but most of his life was spent living in Normandy.
		Edward's reign was one of almost unbroken peace, the threatened invasion of Canute's son, Sweyn of Norway, being averted by the opportune attack on him by Sweyn of Denmark; and the internal difficulties occasioned by the ambition of Earl Godwin and his sons being settled without bloodshed by Edward's own gentleness and prudence.
	www.battle-of-hastings-1066.org.uk /biography-edward-the-confessor.htm (698 words)

	::Edward the Confessor::
		Edward the Confessor was king of England from 1042 to 1066.
		Edward's death was to transform Medieval England and led to the reign of the Norman William the Conqueror with all that his rule meant to Medieval England - castles, the Domesday Book and feudalism.
		Edward was forced to send back to Normandy his Norman advisors and he had to return to Godwin all his estates and accept him back into the kingdom.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /edward_the_confessor.htm (555 words)

	Saints - Edward the Confessor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward was born in 1003 and died on the 5th of January in 1066.
		Edward's desire was for the just treatment of the people, and was true to that desire with the elimination of unfair taxes.
		Edward was canonized by Alexander III in 1161.
	www.scborromeo.org /saints/edward.htm (202 words)

	Edward the Confessor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward’s natural inclination to favor the Normans in England—notably Robert of Jumièges, whom he made archbishop of Canterbury in 1051—led to a breach with Godwin.
		Edward, however, was supported by Leofric of Mercia and Siward of Northumbria, and he outlawed and banished Godwin and his family.
		Shortly before his death, Edward named Harold, son of Godwin, as his successor, possibly in the hope of averting the threat of war posed by the rival claims to the throne of William of Normandy and Harold III of Norway.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ed/EdwardCo.html (348 words)

	English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - St Edward the Confessor. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward the Confessor, the son of Ethelred the Redeless and Emma of Normandy, was born at Islip in 1004.
		Edward succeeded to the English throne in 1042, on the death of Hardicanute.
		Edward then siezed the opportunity to be rid of his Queen, Godwine's daughter, Edith, whom he deprived of all her jewellery and consigned to a convent.
	www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /saxon_16.htm (1293 words)

	Edward the Confessor
		Edward and a force of French (possibly containing some Normans, but more likely to be men of the Vexin supplied by his nephew, Walter, who was the Count of that region) landed at Southampton in an apparent attempt to reach his mother.
		Edward took the bold, or foolish, step in 1050 of disbanding the fleet, a move that proved popular as it allowed the king to abolish the Danegeld that had been paid by the folk of the country since the time of King Æþelræd Unræd.
		Odda of Deerhurst, one of Edward's kinsmen, was appointed to a new earldom in the southwest carved from the lands held by Swein and Godwin.
	members.tripod.com /GeoffBoxell/edward.htm (6753 words)

	Edward the Confessor of Westminster Abbey
		Edward's life and rule were at a time when much of England was dominated by outside rulers and influences, especially by the Vikings.
		Edward the Confessor returned to the English Court at the invitation of his half-brother, King Hardicnut, a year before he died in 1042.
		Edward was not an ambitious man, he was more content to feed the poor and to give shelter to strangers.
	mariannedorman.homestead.com /Edward.html (1421 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of October 13 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward was the son of Ethelbert the Unready (or Ethelred III), king of the English, and Emma, sister of Duke Richard I of Normandy.
		Edward's reign was outwardly peaceful and he was a peace-loving man; but he had to contend with the ambitious and powerful Godwin's opposition and other grave difficulties (rivalry between Norman and Saxon courtiers), and he did so with a determination that hardly supports the common picture of Edward as a tame and ineffectual ruler.
		The belief that Edward was a saint was supported by his general reputation for religious devotion and for generosity to the poor and infirm, by the relation of a number of miracles and, too, by the assertion that he and his wife were so ascetic as always to have lived together as brother and sister.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/1013.htm (1978 words)

	Edward the Confessor Summary
		Edward the Confessor (died 1066), the last king of the house of Wessex, ruled England from 1042 to 1066.
		Edward, and his brother Alfred were taken to Normandy by their mother Emma, sister of Normandy's duke Richard II, to escape the Danish invasion of England in 1013.
		Edward was crowned at the cathedral of Winchester, the royal seat of the West Saxons on April 3, 1043.
	www.bookrags.com /Edward_the_Confessor (1948 words)

	GENUKI: Kings of England - E(2)
		king of England, was the son of Edward I., and was born at Carnarvon (Caernarfon) in 1284.
		Edward aimed at the acquisition of Flanders, hoped to get his son Edward, the Black Prince, made Earl of Flanders by the aid of Philip van Arteveldt and the free towns; but Philip was murdered in an insurrection at Ghent.
		Edward came to the throne in the midst of the fierce struggle between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, in which he greatly distinguished himself by his courage and military skill.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/royalty/kingedw.html (1857 words)

	BBC - History - Edward the Confessor (c.1003 - 1066)
		Edward, the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England, was known as 'the Confessor' because of his deep piety.
		Edward was the son of King Ethelred II the Unready and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy.
		Edward married Godwine's daughter Edith in 1045, but this could not prevent a breach between the two men in 1049.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/edward_confessor.shtml (351 words)

	Saint Edwards Church, Granville Ohio
		Bishop Ready undertook construction of the current Church of St. Edward the Confessor, laying the cornerstone on October 30th of that year and celebrating the church's first Mass on March 20, 1955.
		Edward the Confessor has grown from a small parish of thirty-five families worshiping in a home to a vital force in the Civic and Religious communities of the area.
		Saint Edward the Confessor was the last of the Anglo-Saxon line to rule England (1042-1066).
	www.saintedwards.org /history.htm (654 words)

	EBK: Edward the Confessor, King of England
		Edward was the eldest son of King Aethelred the Unred by his second wife, Emma of Normandy.
		Edward made a play for the throne himself, leading an unsuccessful raid on Southampton, while his younger brother, Alfred, landed in England in 1036; but Emma’s English sons received no support from their mother and poor Alfred was even murdered for his trouble.
		Edward's tight control of England was largely due to the powerful family of Earl Godwin of Wessex.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/edwardconfessor.html (650 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Edward the Confessor
		Canute's son, Sweyn of Norway, being averted by the opportune attack on him by Sweyn of Denmark; and the internal difficulties occasioned by the ambition of Earl Godwin and his sons being settled without bloodshed by Edward's own gentleness and prudence.
		Being devoid of personal ambition, Edward's one aim was the welfare of his people.
		Edward was the first King of England to touch for the "king's
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05322a.htm (525 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Edward III
		With few rivals (Canute's line was extinct and Edward's only male relatives were two nephews in exile), Edward was undisputed king; the threat of usurpation by the King of Norway rallied the English and Danes in allegiance to Edward.
		With reinforcements from the earls of Mercia and Northumberland, Edward banished Godwin from the country and sent Queen Edith from court.
		Edward subsequently formed a closer alliance with Godwin's son Harold, who led the army as the king's deputy (he defeated a Welsh incursion in 1055) and whom Edward may have named as heir on his deathbed.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page40.asp (325 words)

	Note - Edward The Confessor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The king Ethelred the Unready, Edward and his brother Alfred were taken to Normandy by their mother Emma of Normandy, sister of Normandys duke Richard II of Normandy, to escape the Denmark invasion of England in 1013.
		Edwards sympathies for Norman favourites frustrated Saxon and Danish nobles alike, fuelling the growth of anti-Norman opinion led by Godwin, Earl of Wessex, Earl of Wessex, who had become the kings father-in-law in 1045.
		After Edwards death, when he was sanctified, there were two types of saints: martyrs and confessors.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Aakashshah2910/edward-the-confessor/note.html (660 words)

	Westminster-Abbey.html
		Edward the Confessor was born in 1003, son of King Ethelred II, The Unready and Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy.
		Edward had been accompanied back to England with several influential Normans who were later given important posts in office and he remained in close contact with the Duchy during his reign.
		Edward the Confessor died on 5th January 1066 and on his deathbed is said to have acknowledged Harold as his successor.
	www.castles-abbeys.co.uk /Westminster-Abbey.html (2964 words)

	St. Edward the Confessor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward, by then 40, and already known in England for his worthy character, was called home by acclamation to assume the kingship.
		Edward was also the first king of England reputed to be able to cure skin disease (“the king's evil”) by laying hands on those afflicted by it.
		Edward undertook the task assigned, but died in 1066 only a week after the new abbey church was finished.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id785.htm (690 words)

	Edward III, the Confessor (1042-66 AD)
		The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was the oldest son of Æthelred II and Emma.
		Edward sought to revenge himself on Godwin by insulting his own wife and Godwin's daughter, Edith, and confining her to the monastery of Wherwell.
		Edward's greatest achievement was the construction of a new cathedral, where virtually all English monarchs from William the Conqueror onward would be crowned.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon20.html (526 words)

	Edward the Confessor
		Edward, the eldest son of Ethelred the Unready, king of England, was born in Islip in Oxfordshire in about 1003.
		Edward's mother, Emma of Normandy, was the daughter of Richard, Duke of Normandy.
		However, on Edward's deathbed in 1066, it is claimed that he nominated Harold of Wessex, as the successor to the throne.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MEDedward.htm (477 words)

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