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Anglo-Saxon Kings
Monarch Born Born where Ruled Died Died where Buried Lineage Portrait
Athelstan
1
c.
895
n/a 927-939 939 Gloucester,
Gloucestershire
Malmesbury Abbey,
Wiltshire
Son of
Edward
the Elder
Portrait
Edmund I 921 n/a 939-946 946

Pucklechurch,
Gloucestershire
Murdered by an outlaw at a feast

Glastonbury Abbey,
Somerset
Son of
Edward
the Elder
n/a
Edred c.
923
n/a 946-955 955 Frome,
Somerset
Winchester,
Hampshire
Son of
Edward
the Elder
Portrait
Edwy c.
941
n/a 955-959 959 Gloucester,
Gloucestershire
Winchester,
Hampshire
Son of
Edmund I
Portrait
Edgar 944 n/a 959-975 975 Winchester,
Hampshire
Glastonbury Abbey,
Somerset
Son of
Edmund I
Portrait
Edward
the Martyr
2
c.
962
n/a 975-978 978 Corfe Castle,
Dorset

Murdered by supporters of his half-brother and successor Ethelred
Shaftesbury Abbey,
Dorset
Son of
Edgar
n/a
Ethelred II,
the Unready
c.
968
n/a 978-1013 1016 London St Paul's Cathedral,
London
Son of
Edgar
n/a

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1013-1014 1
Ethelred II,
the Unready
Ruled again
See above 1014-1016 See above
Edmund II,
Ironside
c.
993
n/a Apr-Nov
1016
1016 Oxford,
Oxfordshire
Glastonbury Abbey,
Somerset
Son of
Ethelred
the Unready
Portrait

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1016-1042 1
Edward
the Confessor
c.
1003
Islip,
Oxfordshire
1042-1066 1066 Westminster Palace,
London

Westminster Abbey,
London

Son of
Ethelred
the Unready
n/a
Harold II,
Godwinesson
3
c.
1022
n/a Jan-Oct
1066
1066 Senlac, Sussex
Killed by an arrow at the Battle of Hastings
Waltham Abbey,
Essex
Nominated by
Edward
the Confessor
n/a

Notes
1. Athelstan is seen as the first king of all England. In 924 he united the kingdom of Wessex with Mercia and in 927 with Northumbria, effectively creating England.

2. Edward the Martyr was originally buried at Wareham in Dorset before being moved to Shaftesbury Abbey in 980.

3. Harold II became the first Anglo-Saxon monarch not to come from the ancient line of Wessex kings. His nomination by the dying and childless Edward the Confessor displeased William, Duke of Normandy who believed he had been assured the crown on Edward's death. William invaded England and defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings ending the Anglo-Saxon rule of England and bringing in the Normans.

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