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The Lost King of England - The East European Adventures of Edward the Exile

The Lost King of England - The East European Adventures of Edward the Exile Paperback / softback - 1989

by Gabriel Ronay

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Paperback / softback. New. After the murder of Edmund Ironside in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex, banishing Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward, to Sweden with a 'letter of death'. Drawing on sources from as far afield as Iceland and Kievan Russia, this work offers an account of the extraordinary years of the princes' exile.
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  • Title The Lost King of England - The East European Adventures of Edward the Exile
  • Author Gabriel Ronay
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Boydell Press, Woodbridge
  • Date 1989-12-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780851157856
  • ISBN 9780851157856 / 0851157858
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the rear cover

When Edward Ironside was murdered in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex. The following year, conscious of the threat posed to his rule by Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward AEtheling Canute banished them to Sweden, with a 'letter of death'. The Swedish king, however, spared their lives, and the Continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began; their uncertain fate greatly exercised the minds of contemporary English chroniclers. Forty years later the ageing, childless Edward the Confessor learned that his nephew Edward was living in Hungary; he invited him to return home, casting him in a crucial role in the struggle to avert a Norman takeover. But forty-eight hours after his triumphant homecoming he was dead, and the events that were to lead to the Norman conquest of 1066 were set in motion. Drawing on sources from as far afield as Iceland and Kievan Russia, this account of the extraordinary years of the princes' exile is a story stranger than fiction, unravelled by Gabriel Ronay with all the excitement of a modern-day crime study.

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