Edmund Ironside

Edmund II, called " iron hand " ( Ironside ), from the House of Wessex (c. 989 in Wessex, † November 30, 1016 ), son of Æthelred and his first wife Aelfgifu, was in 1016 for a short time King of England.

Life

When his father during the siege of London by Knut the Great died in April 1016, he called the London of the successor and king of England. Between now two English kings Edmund and Knut there were some skirmishes and finally decisive battle of Assandun, during which fell off some English Prince of Edmund and Edmund's army was defeated. However, Knut sought a compromise with his opponents, so that there was a division in England. Edmund was King of Wessex, Knut ruled over the rest part of the agreement was to continue that at the death of one of the two kings of the other would take over control of the entire empire, respectively. Only a month later died Edmund, and Wessex submitted to Knut.

Although Edmund his reign could hardly exercise, he inherited the throne claim further. His son Edward died in 1057. 's Son Edgar Aetheling was thus from the Anglo-Saxon view of new claimants to the throne. He did not came to power, but his niece Matilda, the daughter of Edmund II granddaughter Margaret, was through her marriage to Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ancestress of the future English kings and united as the Saxon and the Norman line. About Margaret and their marriage to Malcolm III. Edmund of Scotland is also the progenitor of all the Scottish kings by Edgar at.

Swell

• Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Symeon of Durham, Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
• Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla