Edmund II, "Ironside"

993 - 1016  (~ 28 years)

• Name	Edmund II   [1]
  Suffix	"Ironside"
  Birth	Between 988 and 993  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Crown1	, London   [3]
  	during the same month at Old St Paul's Cathedral
  Success1	23 Apr 1016  [3, 4]
  	his father as King of England. Edmund carried on the fight against the Danes until his own death seven months later when he was killed by Canute, King of the Danes, who later became king and married Edward and Alfred's mother, Emma.
  Death	30 Nov 1016	, London   [1, 5]
  	he may have died in Oxford
  Burial	, Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, England, 51.146098,-2.718670   [5]
  		Glastonburyabbey Remains of Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, England.
  Person ID	I92429	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Aethelred II --, "The Unready",   b. 968, Kingdom of Wessex d. 23 Apr 1016, London, Middlesex County, England (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Elfreda --, of Northumbria
  Marriage	Abt 985  [1, 6]
  	There were 13 children from this marriage.
  Family ID	F1501	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Edith
  Marriage	Y  [5]
  Family ID	F23446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

  Family 2
  Children	1. Edward AETHELING,   b. 1016   d. 1057, , London,, England (Age 41 years)
  Family ID	F35828	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S1846] The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, 1846. [S2058] Britain's Royal Families, 2058. (Reliability: 2). Page 28 [S2058] Britain's Royal Families, 2058. (Reliability: 3). Page 28 [S4243] Wikipedia - Edward the Confessor, 4243. (Reliability: 2). [S2173] Kings & Queens-Monarchs of Great Britain & Ireland, 2173. (Reliability: 3). Page 87 [S2073] British Kings & Queens, 2073. Page 35.