Edward the Confessor
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Edward the Confessor was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex.
The left panel of the Wilton Diptych, where Edward (centre), with Edmund the Martyr (left) and John the Baptist, are depicted presenting Richard II to the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.
A sealed writ of Edward the Confessor
Edward's seal: SIGILLVM EADWARDI ANGLORVM BASILEI (Seal of Edward crowned/King of the English).
Æthelred the Unready
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Æthelred II, known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from March 978 to December 1013 and again from February 1014 until his death. The epithet "Unready" or "Unræd" is a pun on his name
Edward the Confessor
…January 1066) was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut. He restored the rule of the House of Wessex after the…
Illustration in the late tenth-century Ramsey Psalter, probably for Ramsey Abbey or Oswald, Archbishop of York
Charter S 876 of 4 June 993 in favour of Abingdon Abbey
Charter S 905 of Æthelred in 1002 granting land in Canterbury for seven pounds to a man also called Æthelred and his wife, with restoration to the Church on their deaths