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Birth:          ABT  922 Wessex
Death:          26 May  946 Pucklechurch, England
Cause of Death: murdered by a robber

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_I
Edmund I (Old English: Eadmund, pronounced [ę??dmund]; 921 – 26 May 946), called 
the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of the English from 
939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Ęthelstan. 
Ęthelstan died on 27 October 939, and Edmund succeeded him as king.


Military threats[edit]

Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder,[2] grandson of Alfred the 
Great, great-grandson of Ęthelwulf of Wessex, great-great grandson of Egbert of 
Wessex and great-great-great grandson of Ealhmund of Kent. Shortly after his 
proclamation as king, he had to face several military threats. King Olaf III Guthfrithson 
conquered Northumbria and invaded the Midlands; when Olaf died in 942, Edmund 
reconquered the Midlands.[2] In 943, Edmund became the god-father of King Olaf of 
York. In 944, Edmund was successful in reconquering Northumbria.[3] In the same 
year, his ally Olaf of York lost his throne and left for Dublin in Ireland. Olaf became the 
king of Dublin as Amlaķb Cuarįn and continued to be allied to his god-father. In 945, 
Edmund conquered Strathclyde but ceded the territory to King Malcolm I of Scotland 
in exchange for a treaty of mutual military support.[3] Edmund thus established a 
policy of safe borders and peaceful relationships with Scotland. During his reign, the 
revival of monasteries in England began.

Louis IV of France[edit]

One of Edmund's last political movements of which there is some knowledge is his role 
in the restoration of Louis IV of France to the throne. Louis, son of Charles the Simple 
and Edmund's half-sister Eadgifu, had resided at the West-Saxon court for some time 
until 936, when he returned to be crowned King of France. In the summer of 945, he 
was captured by the Norsemen of Rouen and subsequently released to Duke Hugh the 
Great, who held him in custody. The chronicler Richerus claims that Eadgifu wrote 
letters both to Edmund and to Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor in which she requested 
support for her son. Edmund responded to her plea by sending angry threats to Hugh.
[4] Flodoard's Annales, one of Richerus' sources, report:


Edmund, king of the English, sent messengers to Duke Hugh about the restoration of 
King Louis, and the duke accordingly made a public agreement with his nephews and 
other leading men of his kingdom. [...] Hugh, duke of the Franks, allying himself with 
Hugh the Black, son of Richard, and the other leading men of the kingdom, restored 
to the kingdom King Louis.[5][6]

Death and succession[edit]
On 26 May 946, Edmund was murdered by Leofa, an exiled thief, while attending St 
Augustine's Day mass in Pucklechurch (South Gloucestershire).[7] John of Worcester 
and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been 
feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd. He attacked the 
intruder in person, but in the event, Leofa killed him. Leofa was killed on the spot by 
those present.[8] A recent article re-examines Edmund's death and dismisses the later 
chronicle accounts as fiction. It suggests the king was the victim of a political 
assassination.[9]

Edmund's sister Eadgyth, the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, died earlier the 
same year, as Flodoard's Annales for 946 report.[10]

Edmund was succeeded as king by his brother Eadred, king from 946 until 955. 
Edmund's sons later ruled England as:
Eadwig, King of England from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kent from 957 
until his death on 1 October 959.
Edgar the Peaceful, king of Mercia and Northumbria from 957 until his brother's death 
in 959, then king of England from 959 until 975.

Parents
____ Edward I "the Elder" ( 875 - Jul  924)
OF KENT Edgiva (ABT  896 -  961)

Siblings
____ Edmund I "the Magnificent" "the Deed Doer" (ABT  922 - 26 May  946)

Marriage To ____ Elgiva "Saint" (ABT  922 -  944)
    m.  

Notes
his 1st

Parents
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____ Wynflaed ()

Children by ____ Elgiva "Saint" ABT  922 -  944
____ Edgar "the Peaceable" (ABT  943 - 8 Jul  975)

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