Prince Edward ENGLAND

   Another name for Edward was ENGLAND Prince.

   Ancestral File Number: 8HS0-HC. User ID: 302555918.

   General Notes:

"The Atheling", "The Exile".

BOOKS
Battle 1066, Brigadier C.N.Barclay, D Van Nostrand Co Inc, Princeton, NJ, 1966
p17: "Edward the Confessor was born at Islip in Oxfordshire about 1005. He was the son of Ethelred the Unready and Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. According to modern laws of heredity his claim was indisputable: there was no successor to the throne to follow Hardicanute in the Danish line. The only possible rival was Edward, the son of Edmund Ironside; but this was an illegitimate line, as Ironside was only a natural son of their common father Ethelred. Although illegitimacy was not a fatal bar to succession in those days it did have some bearing on the matter. Moreover the rival Edward was far away in Hungary; whereas the Confessor had been established in England for some little time, having been brought over from exile in Normandy in Hardicanute, who treated him with generosity and respect.
"Rules of succession in those days were not, however, based solely on heredity, which was only one of the factors concerened. Saxon influence had been growing with the realization that Haricanute had not heir, and Edward had the backing of the powerful Earl Godwin. When therefore the leading men of the realm assembled in London on Hardicanute's death to select a successor the choice of Edward [the Confessor] appears to have been unanimous."

Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p87: "385U Edward `The Exile', Prince of England, (S of 373, F of 396); married Lady Agatha of Germany."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Edward The Exile Mar Agatha kinswoman of Emperor HenryII ?Daughter of Stephen King of Hungary, Died 1057."

INTERNET
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Edward the Exile (Outlaw) (Atheling) fled the country and lived at the
court of Hungary until recalled by his father's half-brother, Edward the
Confessor.

He was never crowned king, as he died in London immediately after his
return in 1057, and was buried at St. Paul's Cathedral.

While on the continent, he married Agatha of Hungary, daughter of Emperor
Henry II. of Germany (Bruno of Germany). Edward was the founder of the
House of Burgoyne.


ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File 8HS0-HC "Atheling The Exile" Born 1016 Father of 9G85-BH "Atheling" Born 1142, B19R-46 "Atheling" Died 1057 Age 41, 9L82-DP Born ?Abt 1042, HESP, OBRA, TMC, 91QS-T8 "The Exile" Born 1016 (41yo-1057).

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol II, The Magnificent Century, Thomas B Cos- tain, 1964, Doubleday & Co, p152:
"On June 18 of that year [1239] a healthy male child was born at Westminster...As soon as a loud clangor of bells conveyed the intelligence that the child was a boy, the city was illuminated and the streets filled with excited people. Already the descent of the royal infant had been traced back from Matilda, the Saxon wife of Henry I; to Margaret, her mother, who had been Queen of Scotland; to Edward the Exile, Edmund Ironsides, Ethelred, Edgar, Edward, Alfred. There it was to con, to talk over, the proof of descent from Alfred the Great, Alfred of glorious memory! For the first time in many years Henry [III] had succeeded in making his people happy. For days later the child was baptized and given the name of Edward, which again delighted the people because it was so completely English..."

The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford University Press, pxviii: "Saxons and Danes Genealogy: Edward (The Exile) mar Agatha, died 1057."

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co 1956 p133 "House of Wessex...Edward the Exile son ofEdmund II Ironside Died 1057..."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p25: "Edward Athling, died 1057..."

The Story of Civilization, Will Durant, Vol IV, The Age of Faith, Bk IV, The Dark Ages, Ch XX, The Rise of the North, Sec I, England, p492: "Cnut's early reign was tarnished with cruelty: he banished the children of Edmund Ironsides, and had Edmund's brothermurdered to forestall an Anglo-Saxon restoration."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol VI, p613, Margaret of Scotland, Saint: "She was brought up at the Hungarian court, where her father, Edward, was in exile. After the Battle ofHastings, Edward's widow and children fled for safety to Scotland."

From Alfred to Henry III 871-1272, Christopher Brooke, 1961, Norton Library History of England, p82:
"...[Edward Confessor] never succeeded in mastering the earls. Thisdid not mean that his throne was insecure. He never consummated his marriage, and had no close heirs or rivals- his one nephew [Edward Atheling] died well before him, and his great-nephew [Edgar Atheling] was never seriously considered for thethrone..."

ANCESTRY.COM
World Ancestral Chart No. 10002 Patricia (Downey) Adams Ancestors of Warren Cash 1760: Edward ATHELING.

   Marriage Information:

Edward married Lady Agatha Von Brunswick AUGSBURG, daughter of Duke Henry Germany BAVARIA, II, about 1035 in London, Middlesex, England. (Lady Agatha Von Brunswick AUGSBURG was born about 1018 in , Bavaria, Germany, christened in Braunschweig, , Prussia and died on 13 Jul 1024.)

   Marriage Information:

Edward also married Elflaed.