ENGLAND, Edward I

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• Name	ENGLAND, Edward
  Suffix	I
  Nickname	The Confessor
  Birth	Abt 1004	Islip, Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
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  Death	5 Jan 1066	England
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  Father	ENGLAND, King Ethelred ,   b. 19 Mar 968, Wessex, England Wessex, Englandd. 23 Apr 1016, London, London, England (Age 48 years)
  Mother	NORMANDY, Queen Emma ,   b. 982, Normandy, France Normandy, Franced. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1002	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France. MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France.
  Family ID	F4531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	BRUNSWICK, Princess Agatha Von Princess of England ,   b. 13 Jul 1024, Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungary Esztergom, Komarom-Esztergom, Hungaryd. 13 Jul 1066, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	13 Jul 1040	London, England
  Children	+ 1. ENGLAND, Princess Aethelreda ,   b. 13 Jul 1042, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotlandd. 25 Sep 1086, Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 44 years)
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	GODWINSDATTER, Queen Edith ,   b. Abt 1020, , , Wessex, England Wessex, Englandd. 18 Dec 1075, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	23 Jan 1045
  Children	+ 1. AETHELING, Margaret ,   b. 1083, Scotland Scotland
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Coronation Chair (For the Coronation Chair see W. Percival-Prescott, The Coronation Chair (London, Ministry of Works, 1957) - The Cornation Chair was made by Edward I to enclose the famous Stone of Scone, which he seized in 1296 and brought from Scotland to the Abbey where he placed it under the Abbot's care. The Scots made repeated and vain efforts to induce Edward to give it back [See account in Archaelogia, vol. III, by Sir Joseph Ayloffe.] Legends abound concerning this mysterious object and tradition identifies this stone with the one upon which Jacob rested his head at Bethel -- 'And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it' (Genesis 28:18). Jacob's sons carried it to Egypt and from thence it passed to Spain with King Gathelus, son of Cecrops, the builder of Athens. About 700 b.c. it appears in Ireland, whither it was carried by the Spanish King's son Simon Brech, on his invasion of that island. There it was placed upon the sacred Hill of Tara, and called 'Lia-Fail', the 'fatal' stone, or 'stone of destiny', for when the Irish kings were seated upon it at Coronations the sotne groaned aloud if the claimant was of royal race but remained silent if he was a pretender. Fergus Mor MacEirc (d. 501?), the founder of the Scottish monarchy, and one of the Blood Royal of Ireland, received it in Scotland, and Kenneth MacAlpin (d. 860) finally deposited it in the Monastery of Scone (846). Setting aside the earlier myths it is certain that it had been for centuries and object of veneration to the Scots, who fancied that 'while it remained in the country, the State would be unshaken'. Upon this stone their kings, down to John Balliol, were crowned, and it is said that the following distich had been engraved upn it by Kenneth: Ni fallat fatum, Scoti, quocunque locatum Invenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem.(2) The prophecy was fulfilled at the accession of James VI of Scotland and I of England. Edward had a magnificent oaken chair made to contain it, painted by Master Walter and decorated with patterns of birds, foliage, and animals on a guilt ground, and this is the chair which remains. The figure of a king, the Confessor or Edward I, his feet resting on a lion, was painted ont eh back. The gilt lions below were added later. At Cornations this chair and stone are moved into the Sanctuary, and since 1308 on them have been crowned all the sovereigns of England with three exceptions. (3) A portion of the mosaic pavement, by Peter the Roman, which covered the whole Chapel can be seen round the chair. The only State occasion upon which the chair has been taken out of the Abbey was when Oliver Cromwell was installed upon it as Lord Protector in Westminster Hall. In Addison's time the chair was unguarded by railings, but the guides exacted a forfeit from every person who sat down on it. The eighteenth-century contempt for things Gothic is illustrated by the number of names and initials carved on the chair and by Godsmith's Citizen of the World, who 'saw no curiosity either in the oak chair or the stone". Close by are the sword and shield of Edward III, which were, it is said, carried before the King in France. The sword is seven feet long and weighs eighteen pounds; it was, perhaps, made at Solingen or Passau in Germany. 1. The nobles swearing fealty to Queen Emma in the name of he unborn son. 2. The birth of Edward the Confessor, which took place at Islip, Oxfordshire, between 1002 and 1005. 3. His Coronation in 1043. On each side of the King are the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. 4. King Edward is alarmed by the appearance of the Devil dancing on the casks which contained the Danegeld. The Danegeld was tax impposed by his father Ethelred on the people to induce the Danes to leave the country, but it was remitted by Edward after this vision. The figure of the demon has been broken off. 5. Edward warns servant, who is stealing his treasure, to escape with his booty before the return to Hugolin, the King's Chamberlain. The King is represented in bed, the thief kneeling at the chest. 6. Christ appears to Edward when at Mass. 7. Edward sees in a vision the shipwreck of the Kong of Denmark, who was drowned on his way to invade England. In front is a small boat, and an armed figure falling towers, supposed to represent the failure of the expedition. 8. The quarrel between Harold and Tostig. Earl Godwin's sons, from which the King prophesies their future feuds and unhappy fate. The sons are in the foreground; at the back, Edward, Edith, and Godwin sit at a table. Earl Tostig was killed at Stamford Bridge, and King Harold at Hastings, within a few days of each other in 1066. 9. Edward's vision of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, who had taken refuge in a cave from their heathen persecutors about A.D. 250. He sees them turn from their right sides to their left-- a portent of misfortune during the seventy years in which the Sleepers were to lie in their new position. The King's messengers are represented arriving at the cave and verifying the vision. 10. St John the Evangelist in the guise of a pilgrim asks alms of the King, who finding his purse empty, gives him a valuable ring off his finger. 11. Blind men restored to sight by washing in the water used by Edward. The King is in the foreground, washing his hands; at the side an attendant presents the water to the blind men. 12. St. John the Evangelist restoring Edward's ring to two pilgrims in Palestine, bidding them announce to the King his aproaching end. 13. The pilgrims giving the ring and message to the King shortly before his death. This is the famous ring which was kept among the relics. 14. The subject is uncertain but is generaly said to be the dedication of the Abby Church on 28 December 1065. BIRTH: Also shown as Born , Islip, Oxfordshire, England.