Ruler · 963 – 978

Edward the Martyr

Lived 963 – 978; monarch. Monarch of England of Kingdom of England, 975 – 978.

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Lived: 963 – 978; 15 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of England
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Monarch of England

Kingdom of England · the 7th of 53 dated reigns · 899 – 1707

3 before

Eadred946 – 955

Eadwig955 – 959

Edgar, King of England959 – 975

Edward the Martyr975 – 978

Æthelred the Unready978 – 1013

Swein Forkbeard1013 – 1014

Æthelred the Unready1014 – 1016

43 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 975 – 978 · 3 years · came to it aged 12

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; deliberate murder

the term records: death in office · the article also: killed

He was killed on his step-mother Ælfthryth's estate at the Gap of Corfe in Dorset, and hurriedly buried at Wareham.

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