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Edward the Confessor

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This article is about the King of England from 1042 to 166. For other uses, see Edward (disambiguation).

Edward the Confessor (Old English: Ēadpeard Andettere; Latin: Edwardus Confessor; c. 1003 – 1066) was among the last Anglo-Saxon Kings of England who reigned from 1042 to 1066.[1]

Biography

In 1014, Edward fled with his father Æthelred the Unready due to his usurpation by the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard. After Sweyn's succeeding son Cnut the Great died, the House of Wessex would resume when Edward returned to England in 1042 after more than 30 years of exile and reigned there for the remainder of his life.[2]

In 1065, he rebuilt the Westminster Abbey, previously a Saxon church, with Romanesque architecture.[3] Within the abbey, he built the church of St. Margaret, which became one of the oldest churches in England.[4]

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