Edmund the Martyr (841-20 November 869) was a King and martyr of East Anglia. He succeeded to the East Anglian throne in 855, while still a boy. The earliest and most reliable accounts represent Edmund as descended from the preceding kings of East Anglia of the Wuffing line. Other accounts state that his father was King Æthelweard. Geoffrey of Wells claimed that Edmund was the youngest son of Alcmund, a Saxon king. Edmund was said to have been crowned by Bishop Humbert of Elmham on Christmas Day 855. In 869, Edmund was defeated in battle by the Great Heathen Army; he was captured, tortured and died the death of a martyr. He is venerated as a saint and a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Communion. The king's body was ultimately interred at Beadoriceworth, the modern Bury St Edmunds, where the pilgrimage to his shrine was encouraged by the twelfth-century monks' enlargement of the church. Edmund's popularity among the Anglo-Norman nobility helped justify claims of continuity with pre-Norman traditions; a banner of St. Edmund's arms was carried at the battle of Agincourt. One can find churches dedicated to his memory all over England, including Christopher Wren's St Edmund the King and Martyr in London. There are a number of colleges named after St Edmund. Edmund is seen as a patron saint of various kings, pandemics, torture victims, and wolves, the Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia, the English county of Suffolk, Douai Abbey the French city of Toulouse and of the English nation by the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. (more)
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St Edmund the King and Martyr:
St Edmund, King and Martyr is a church building on Lombard Street, in the City of London. It was a Church of England church dedicated to St Edmund. In 1292 it is first recorded, as 'Saint Edmund towards Garcherche' , and it reappears in 1348 as 'Sain
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Æthelweard of East Anglia:
Æthelweard was of King of East Anglia in the middle of the 9th century. As with his predecessor Æthelstan, textual evidence for Æthelweard's reign is very limited. However, numismatic evidence in the form of surviving coinage suggests that he was an
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List of monarchs of East Anglia:
This is a chronological list of the monarchs of East Anglia, formally known as The Kingdom of the East Angles, one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was founded in the 6th century and ceased being independent in 918,
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Suffolk:
Suffolk ( ) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich, at and other
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Christmas:
Christmas ( ) is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. It refers to both the day commemorating the birth, and also the Christmastide season which that day inaugurates, concluding with the Feast of the Epiphany. The date of the celebra
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Bury St Edmunds:
Bury St Edmunds is a town in the county of Suffolk, England and formerly the county town of West Suffolk. It is the seat of the East of England Regional Assembly. It is the main town in the borough of St Edmundsbury and known for the ruined abbey nea
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Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia:
The Diocese of East Anglia is a diocese of the Latin Rite, of the Roman Catholic church covering the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and also Peterborough in eastern England. The East Anglia Diocese makes up part of the Catholic Association P
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Douai Abbey:
Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 wh
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Ivar the Boneless:
Ivar Ragnarsson (died possibly 873 Annals of Ulster. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A/index.html Retrieved on May 4, 2007 ) nicknamed the Boneless (inn beinlausi), was a Danish Viking chieftain (and by reputation also a berserker), who, in t
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Abbo of Fleury:
Abbo of Fleury (in Latin Abbo Floriacensis), also known as Abbon or Saint Abbo' (c. 945-13 November,1004) was a monk, and later abbot, of the Benedictine monastery of Fleury sur Loire (the modern Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire) near Orléans, France. He was b
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Flag of Suffolk:
The Flag of Suffolk, (also known as Saint Edmund's Flag), is a modern proposal for a county flag for the English county of Suffolk, designed by Bill Bulstrode. The flag bears a shield of the arms attributed to Saint Edmund the Martyr on a Cross of Sa
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