Edward The Confessor was a notable king of England who Claimed the Oh so Coveted Throne of England The 8th of June, 1046 until death on the 5th of January, 1066. Edward was the seventh Son of Ethelred The Unready and the first son of Ethelred’s second wife Emma of Normandy. He was born in the year 1003 and in Islip of The United Kingdom and as you will soon see, his childhood was extremely Unpleasant. He had one full brother, Alfred, and a sister, Godgifu.
During Edward’s Childhood, England was the target of virtually Infinite Viking raids and invasions under the Hilariously named Sweyn Forkbeard and his son, Canute.Unfortunately, fate turned against Edward, allowing Sweyn Forkbeard to seize The English Throne. After Forkbeard was crowned King, Edward’s Mother, Emma fled to Normandy, followed by Edward himself and Alfred who was Edward’s brother, and then finally followed by The Confessor’s father, Ethelred The Unready.
Sweyn Forkbeard died in February 1014, and The Leading English Powers invited Ethelred back on the condition that he promised to rule far more justly than he previously had before. Ethelred finally agreed to the condition and then sent his son Edward back with his ambassadors. Ethelred the Unready then died in April 1016, and he was succeeded by Edward’s older half-brother Edmund Ironside, who carried on the fight against Swen Forkbeard’s son, Canute. According to Scandinavian tradition, Edward fought alongside Edmund. Although, as Edward was at most thirteen years old at the time, the story is disputed.
However, Ironside died in November 1016, and Canute finally became the undisputed English king. Edward then again was forced wickedly into exile with his brother and sister; in 1017 his traitor mother, Emma of Normandy married Canute and betrayed the soul of her dead husband. During the same year, Canut had Edward’s last surviving elder half-brother, Eadwig, executed, leaving The Confessor himself as the leading Anglo-Saxon claimant to the Highly Coveted English throne.
25 Years later, following Harthacanute, the son of Canute The Great’s death on 8 June 1042, Godwin (Farther of Harold Godwinson), the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle describes the popularity he enjoyed at his accession “before Harthacanute was buried, all the people chose Edward as king in London.” Edward was crowned at the cathedral of Winchester, the royal seat of the West Saxons, on 3 April 1043.
23, years later on 5th January, 1066, Edward had Died with His Wife Edith, Sister of Harold Godwinson and had deliberately taken a vow of celibacy forbidding him to have child to take on the throne.