NameEdmund_I the_Elder
Birth921
Death26 May 946, Pucklechurch, Dorset, England
BurialGlastonbury Abbey, Somerset
Spouses
FatherAlfgar of_Wiltshire Ealdorman
Notes for Edmund_I the_Elder
He ruled 940-959. He was succeeded by his son, Edgar the Peaceable.
Reigned 940-946
Murdered: An Outlaw, Leolf, stabbed him to death at a banquet to St.Augustine
He expelled the Norse King Olaf from Northumbria in 944. He supported
Dunstan in the reintroduction of the Monastic rule of St. Benedict.