Edward the Confessor

Emily Zimmerman

Early Life

• Born in 1003• Son of Ethelred and Emma• Edward and Alfred went to Normandy

The “Confessor”

• Deeply Religious• Participated in mass

Fighting for the throne

• Alfred and Edward try to replace Harold

• Alfred Dies• Hardicanute rules• Edward takes thrown April 3, 1043

Edward’s Mother

• Bad Relationship• Emma didn’t support Edward for King• Edward had her arrested

Married Life

• 1045• Edith• No Children

Normandy

• Spent many years in Normandy • Surrounded and filled his courts with

Normans • Godwin was against this

Death

• January 5 1066• No children• 4 possible kings• Harold Earl of Wessex

Harold Earl of Wessex

After

• Known as the last Saxon King • William defeated Harold at Battle of

Hastings • Norman-French rather than Anglo-

Saxon

Resources

• http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon20.html• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05322a.htm• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDedward.htm• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/

edward_the_confessor.htm• http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/theclaimants.htm