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Edward the Confessor
Eduardus Confessor la
Anglo-Saxon King of England from 1042 to 1066
- Child of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy
- Married to Edith of Wessex
- Dated between 1003 and 1005 CE – 5 January 1066 CE
- Recognised as Saint, 7 February 1161 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
Family
The family of Edward the Confessor
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 13
Family 13
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Æthelred the Unready King of England -
child of (child) Emma of Normandy Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor -
of the house House of Wessex family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom - sibling of Æthelstan Ætheling Anglo-Saxon royalty
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sibling of Alfred Aetheling Son of English king Æthelred II and his second wife Emma of Normandy; brother of Edward the Confessor - sibling of Eadred Ætheling born 901
- sibling of Eadwig Ætheling Anglo-Saxon royalty
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sibling of Edmund II of England King of the English, Wessex dynasty - sibling of Goda of England English princess
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sibling of Gunhilda of Denmark 11th century Queen of Germany - sibling of Harthacanute
- married to Edith of Wessex
- married to Emma of Normandy Norman princess and mother of Edward the Confessor
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
15 statements on this record
- 5 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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