EFL - Enciclopedia delle Famiglie Lombarde

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20&%20Danish%20K ings.htm EADMUND (921-murdered Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire 26 May 9 46, bur Glastonbury Abbey [1]). "Eadmundus regis frater" subscribed ch arters of King Æthelstan dated 931 and 939, under the latter also bei ng the grantee of land at Droxford, Hampshire [2]. He fought with hi s half-brother King Æthelstan at Brunanburh in 937 [3]. He succeede d his half-brother in 939 as EDMUND King of Wessex, crowned 29 Nov 93 9 at Kingston-upon-Thames. Olaf Guthfrithson King of Dublin invaded En gland in 939 and by the end of that year had occupied York. In raids o n northern Mercia the following year, King Olaf took Tamworth and near by land, and under a treaty agreed with King Edmund took the whole o f modern Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire . King Olaf continued by invading Northumbria over the Tees, but die d before the end of 940. King Edmund regained the lost territories fro m Olaf's successor Olaf Sihtricson in 942. King Edmund brought Northum bria under his control in 944, expelling both Olaf Sihtricson and Ræg nald Guthfrithson from York. From that time he may be regarded as kin g of a united England. He ravaged Strathclyde in 945. The Anglo-Saxo n Chronicle records the death on St Augustine's day 946 of King Edmun d [4]. Simeon of Durham records that King Edmund was killed "VII Kal J un" in 946 and buried at Glastonbury [5]. Florence of Worcester record s that he was stabbed to death by Leof "a ruffianly thief" while attem pting to defend his steward from being robbed [6]. [1] Florence of Wo rcester, 946, p. 99. [2] S 414 and S 446. [3] Florence of Worcester , 938, p. 97. [4] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A and D, 946. [5] Simeon o f Durham, p. 504. [6] Florence of Worcester, 946, p. 99.