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NameEdward the Exile 
[54, His own article], [119, Son-in-law, Malcolm rex Scotie, pp. 1106-7]
[54, His own article], [119, Son-in-law, Malcolm rex Scotie, pp. 1106-7]Deathca 1057
FatherEdmund II Ironside King of English (ca981-1016)
MotherAlgitha
Spouses
Notes for Edward the Exile
Or Edward the Atheling?
DNB Main notes for Edward the Exile
Edward Atheling d. 1057
Name: Edward Atheling
Dates: d. 1057
Active Date: 1037
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Royalty and Society
Occupation: Son of King Edmund Ironside [q.v.]
Place of:
Burial: St Paul’s
Spouse: Agatha
Sources: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. C. Plummer, 1892-9;...
Contributor: M. K. Lawson
Article
Edward Atheling d. 1057, son of King Edmund Ironside [q.v.], presumably by his union in 1015 with Ealdgyth, widow of the Danelaw thegn Sigeferth. The sources on his life are thoroughly unsatisfactory. The ‘D’ text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says under 1057 that Canute [q.v.] banished him to Hungary to betray him, that he prospered there, married Agatha, a relative of the emperor, and begot a noble family; under 1067, that Agatha was related through her mother to an Emperor Henry. Twelfth-century chroniclers are more detailed. Florence of Worcester [q.v.] says Canute sent Edward and his brother Edmund to the Swedish king to be killed, but that he passed them to Hungary, where Edmund died and Edward married Agatha, daughter of the brother of an Emperor Henry. William of Malmesbury [q.v.] describes Agatha as sister of the Hungarian queen and Ailred of Rievaulx [q.v.] calls her the daughter of the Hungarian king’s brother, the Emperor Henry, while Orderic Vitalis [q.v.] says Edward married the Hungarian king’s daughter. The twelfth-century Laws of Edward the Confessor, however, has him fleeing to and marrying in Russia, which was also his destination according to Adam of Bremen, writing c.1070. In the 1130s the Anglo-Norman poet Gaimar [q.v.] was misnaming him Edgar, and telling a rousing tale of his adventures, complete with dialogue.
Modern historians have had scant success with this material, which inspires little trust. Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary, or of Bruno, brother of the German Emperor Henry II, or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III, or of none of them. Probably Edward was respected in Hungary, which may say much for interest in the English monarchy, but the only certainty is his return thence to England, at his countrymen’s request, in 1057, presumably because some hoped he would succeed the childless Edward the Confessor [q.v.]. However, he died 19 April 1057, before seeing the king, and was buried at St Paul’s, leaving his wife and three children/Edgar Atheling, St Margaret (later queen of Scotland), and Christina, future nun of Romsey [qq.v.].
Sources
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. C. Plummer, 1892-9; Adam, Gesta, ed. B. Schmeidler, 1917; Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, ed. B. Thorpe, 1848-9; William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Regum Anglorum, ed. W. Stubbs, 1887-9; Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, ed. M. Chibnall, 1969-80; Laws of Edward the Confessor, ed. F. Liebermann, 1898-1916; Gaimar, L’Estoire des Engles, ed. T. D. Hardy and C. T. Martin, 1888-9; Ailred of Rievaulx, Genealogia Regum Anglorum, ed. J. P. Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, vol. xccv; R. L. Graeme Ritchie, The Normans in Scotland, 1954; S. D. Keynes, ‘The Crowland Psalter and the Sons of King Edmund Ironside’, Bodleian Library Record, vol. xi, 1982-5.
Contributor: M. K. Lawson
published 1993
Name: Edward Atheling
Dates: d. 1057
Active Date: 1037
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Royalty and Society
Occupation: Son of King Edmund Ironside [q.v.]
Place of:
Burial: St Paul’s
Spouse: Agatha
Sources: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. C. Plummer, 1892-9;...
Contributor: M. K. Lawson
Article
Edward Atheling d. 1057, son of King Edmund Ironside [q.v.], presumably by his union in 1015 with Ealdgyth, widow of the Danelaw thegn Sigeferth. The sources on his life are thoroughly unsatisfactory. The ‘D’ text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says under 1057 that Canute [q.v.] banished him to Hungary to betray him, that he prospered there, married Agatha, a relative of the emperor, and begot a noble family; under 1067, that Agatha was related through her mother to an Emperor Henry. Twelfth-century chroniclers are more detailed. Florence of Worcester [q.v.] says Canute sent Edward and his brother Edmund to the Swedish king to be killed, but that he passed them to Hungary, where Edmund died and Edward married Agatha, daughter of the brother of an Emperor Henry. William of Malmesbury [q.v.] describes Agatha as sister of the Hungarian queen and Ailred of Rievaulx [q.v.] calls her the daughter of the Hungarian king’s brother, the Emperor Henry, while Orderic Vitalis [q.v.] says Edward married the Hungarian king’s daughter. The twelfth-century Laws of Edward the Confessor, however, has him fleeing to and marrying in Russia, which was also his destination according to Adam of Bremen, writing c.1070. In the 1130s the Anglo-Norman poet Gaimar [q.v.] was misnaming him Edgar, and telling a rousing tale of his adventures, complete with dialogue.
Modern historians have had scant success with this material, which inspires little trust. Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary, or of Bruno, brother of the German Emperor Henry II, or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III, or of none of them. Probably Edward was respected in Hungary, which may say much for interest in the English monarchy, but the only certainty is his return thence to England, at his countrymen’s request, in 1057, presumably because some hoped he would succeed the childless Edward the Confessor [q.v.]. However, he died 19 April 1057, before seeing the king, and was buried at St Paul’s, leaving his wife and three children/Edgar Atheling, St Margaret (later queen of Scotland), and Christina, future nun of Romsey [qq.v.].
Sources
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. C. Plummer, 1892-9; Adam, Gesta, ed. B. Schmeidler, 1917; Florence of Worcester, Chronicon, ed. B. Thorpe, 1848-9; William of Malmesbury, De Gestis Regum Anglorum, ed. W. Stubbs, 1887-9; Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, ed. M. Chibnall, 1969-80; Laws of Edward the Confessor, ed. F. Liebermann, 1898-1916; Gaimar, L’Estoire des Engles, ed. T. D. Hardy and C. T. Martin, 1888-9; Ailred of Rievaulx, Genealogia Regum Anglorum, ed. J. P. Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus, vol. xccv; R. L. Graeme Ritchie, The Normans in Scotland, 1954; S. D. Keynes, ‘The Crowland Psalter and the Sons of King Edmund Ironside’, Bodleian Library Record, vol. xi, 1982-5.
Contributor: M. K. Lawson
published 1993