Jul 18, 2019
3 min read
Edward the Confessor Crowned King of England But a Bunch of Other Stuff Happened First
Edward the Confessor was born in 1003 to King Ethelred the Unready and his second wife Emma, the sister of Richard, Duke of Normandy. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king to sit on the throne of England. Edward was responsible for the building of Westminster Abbey, one of the great churches of England, and where many of the country’s most…
