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COMPANION AND KEY TO Part I. Book III.J
16. EDMUND II. 8UTfUlmed IRON8IDE, KING rf ENGLAND.
After the death of Ethelred, his BOn Edmund was acknowledged by the English fOl'
their king, and crowned at Kingston, ApriI, 1016; while the Danes and the provinces
in subjection to them, elected Canute. Edmund was a prince unJike his father, and
was renowned for his prowess, perseverance, and fortitude, wbich gained bim the sumame
of Ironside. These qualities convinced the Danes that the conquest of England was
osudden1y changed from an easy to a most difficult task: at the same time his natural
generoslty and sincere patriotism inspired the English with courage to endeavour the
removing of the Danish yoke, and with the hope of it. However, arter a
series of events, evincing the courage and conduct of the two nvals, a partition of tOO
kingdom was decided upon. The country south of the Thames with East Anglia was
to Edmund, and Mercia with the northem portion was allotted to Canute.
This order of things subsisted but a fe\v days, for the brave Edmund was assasinated
by the orders ofthe infamous Edric, duke of Mercia, his brother-in-law, Nov. 30th, 1016,
after a reign of not a year's duration. The manner of bis death is variously related.
By some he is said to have been stabbed, at the instigation of Edric, by two of his cham-
berlains as he was easing nature. Others affirmtbat the monstrous Edric compelled bis
BOn to commit the horrid deed. And other accounts state him to bave been poisoned.
This prince, worthy of a better fate, was buried at Glastonbury, leaving issue by his
queen Algitha, two BOns, Edward surnamed the Outlaw, and Edmund. He is stated
also to have left a natural BOn, slain by Canute, A.D.1'017 j though by others,
this Edwy is made to be the BOn of king Ethelred.
His BOns, Edward and Edmund, tbougb young at their fatber's death, created in the
mind of the jealous Canute, fear and envy. But he, apprehending the consequences of
destroying them in tbe country of tbe English, wberethe memory oftheir father was BO
much loved, sent them under corOllr ar tbe sdvantages of travel and education to Den-
mark, under tbe care of a domestic, named Walgar, with direction to have them tbere
assassinated. The person tbus entrusted with tlte fate ofthese iunocents, tOllched with
compassion, instead of carryinl5 them to Denmark, conducted tbem to the king of Swe-
den, discovering at the same ttme his master's intention. The king of Sweden, however,
not to quarrel with Canute, sent thejrinces to the court of Stephen, king of Hungary,
his relation, who gen2rously bestowe them that parental attention tbey BO much
needed. In tbis court thev remained wlth the same favour in the reign of his successor
Solomon, who gave to Edmund bis dmtghter in j and to Edward,
Agatha, of the Emperor Henry 11., and Slster of Sopbia bis queen. Edmund
died 800n arter his marriage, but Edward, arter having five chiJdren, of whom two died
in Hungary, was at length looked upon by the English as a successor to his uncIe, king
Edward the Confessor, who had devoted himself to an abstinence from sex. That king
to prevent the diBOrders that might folIowat his death, from an unsettled succession,
sent, at the request of his subjects, to encourage his return from Huugary for this pur-
pose. Prince Edward, whose title was indeed superior to that of his uncIe, the
king, came to England A.D.I057, bringing with him Agatha, bis wife, and his remlUning
children; Edgar, Margaret, and Christiana. But Edward, who thus seemed designed
for the crown, died soon after his arrival in England and was buried at St. Paul's.
He left his just, though empty, title to Edgar llis son, but who, by the king's reJapsing
into his fonner supine indifference, from wbich be had once with ditficulty been roused,
was deprived of that erown, wbich, in his possession, would have preserved his country
from the numberless evils that awaited it under the Norman yoke. Of the above issue
of Prince Edward, it will suffice to state that Edgar, thus deprived of bill crown, was at
length rewarded with the insulting honour of being made earl of Oxford, by Harold,
the usurper of his rights, and was afterwards threatened into offering terms of submis-
sion to William the Fearing to be implicated in the numerous conspiracies
which troubled the Conqueror'sreign, he resolved to forsake a land he had a to
He embarked in 1068, with Alfltha his mother, and his two sisters, Wlth Bn
1l1tention of retuming to Hungary, his natlve country; but being by tempests driven to
Scotland, and hospitably entertamed, he remained there. At length he married Mar-
garet, the sister of l\falcolm II!., king of the Scots, and at the same time, bis sister
Margaret became the wife of Malcolm. This Ed,,"lU', (the lO8t branch of royaI race of
Egbert in the male line,) surnamed Atheling; i. e. lru(y 1/oble, a titIe which his birth
deserved, but which his fate belied, at length died Tery old, \vithout issue, about the
Year 1110, temp. Hen. I. His sister Margaret, wife of l\Ialcolm, king of Scots, had