Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he...

Edward the Elder (c. 874–924), the son of Alfred the Great Edward the Martyr (c. 962–978), English king and Christian martyr Edward the Confessor (c...

by King Edward the Confessor on the reverse side of pennies minted by him. The heraldic design continued to represent both Wessex and Edward in classical...

Cnut the Great. He became a powerful earl after the death of his father, Godwin, Earl of Wessex. After his brother-in-law, King Edward the Confessor, died...

when the country was converted to Christianity in the Early Middle Ages. A permanent set of coronation regalia, once belonging to Edward the Confessor, was...

bard. The original may also be the sword of Edward the Confessor, although this provenance is debated. The later copy of Curtana was made in the 17th century...

Northumbria to Eric. Later, the earldom of Wessex was granted to Godwin. During the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–1066), the earls were still royal officers...

and all of England, in 1016. Edward the Confessor, the stepson of Cnut, became king in 1042. He built Westminster Abbey, the first large Romanesque church...

Edward the Confessor, pp. 48–49 Barlow, Edward the Confessor, p. 61 Barlow, Edward the Confessor, pp. 76–77 ASC MS D, s.a. 1043; Barlow, Edward the Confessor...

power of the king. When Edward the Confessor died childless in 1066, he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson. Harold gained a great victory over the Norwegian...

as the English King Edward the Confessor. The word confessor is derived from the Latin confiteri, 'to confess; to profess'. In the early church, it was...

Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England. Harthacnut was the last Dane to rule England. Harthacnut was born shortly after the marriage of his parents...

Church of St Edward the Confessor, Sutton Green from British listed buildings, retrieved 11 February 2015 Sutton Park - St Edward the Confessor from English...

continued to participate in politics during the reigns of her sons by each husband, Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor. In 1035 when her second husband Cnut...

of that family. The attributed arms of Edward the Confessor contain five martlets or (golden martlets). The attribution dates to the 13th century (two...

murdered), Edward (known to posterity as Edward the Confessor) became king. Edward was supported by Earl Godwin of Wessex and married the earl's daughter...

Godwin was the father of King Harold II (r. January – October 1066) and of Edith of Wessex, who in 1045 married King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066)...

St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. Named after Saint Edward the Confessor, versions of it have traditionally...

was the cathedral city of the Hwicce, his people. When Harthacnut suddenly died in 1042, he was succeeded by his half-brother Edward the Confessor. Leofric...

English Edward, which if true would place him in Hungary before Stephen's death in 1038. On hearing that Edward was alive, Edward the Confessor recalled...

In 1046 he was named to the Bishopric of Worcester. Ealdred, besides his episcopal duties, served Edward the Confessor, the King of England, as a diplomat...

his coronation, Edward II (r. 1307–1327) promised not only to uphold the laws of Edward the Confessor as was traditional but also "the laws and rightful...

Cornwall, he was educated on the continent. At the time Edward the Confessor was in exile before his succession to the English throne, Leofric joined...

secure. In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading an army of Normans to victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of...

was a decisive Norman victory. The background to the battle was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066, which set up a...

deaths the Danish Cnut the Great and his sons ruled until 1042. The House of Wessex then briefly regained power under Æthelred's son Edward the Confessor, but...

describes Edward the Confessor and Alfred Aetheling as the sons of Canute, though the modern term would be step-sons. Harold could claim the regency or...

marriage to Edward the Confessor from 1045 until Edward's death in 1066. Unlike most English queens in the 10th and 11th centuries, she was crowned. The principal...

them by (left to right) the English saints King Edmund the Martyr, King Edward the Confessor and patron saint, John the Baptist. The painting is an outstanding...

four earldoms remained the principal ones through the reign of Edward the Confessor. During the reign of Edward the Confessor, the earls were still royal...