Edward the Confessor

1
Edward the Confessor

• Emily Zimmerman

2
Early Life

• Born in 1003
• Son of Ethelred and Emma
• Edward and Alfred went to Normandy

3
The Confessor

• Deeply Religious
• Participated in mass

4
Fighting for the throne

• Alfred and Edward try to replace Harold
• Alfred Dies
• Hardicanute rules
• Edward takes thrown April 3, 1043

5
Edwards Mother

• Bad Relationship
• Emma didnt support Edward for King
• Edward had her arrested

6
Married Life

• 1045
• Edith
• No Children

7
Normandy

• Spent many years in Normandy
• Surrounded and filled his courts with Normans
• Godwin was against this

8
Death

• January 5 1066
• No children
• 4 possible kings
• Harold Earl of Wessex

Harold Earl of Wessex
9
After

• Known as the last Saxon King
• William defeated Harold at Battle of Hastings
• Norman-French rather than Anglo-Saxon

10
Resources

• http//www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon20.ht
  ml
• http//www.newadvent.org/cathen/05322a.htm
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDedward.htm
  
• http//www.historylearningsite.co.uk/edward_the_co
  nfessor.htm
• http//www.schoolshistory.org.uk/theclaimants.htm