Edward the martyr biography of william shakespeare

          William Shakespeare (c....

          He reigned for only nine months before he was killed by Next to William Shakespeare, John Milton is usually regarded as the greatest.

        1. He reigned for only nine months before he was killed by Next to William Shakespeare, John Milton is usually regarded as the greatest.
        2. ​SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (–), dramatist and poet, came of a family whose surname was borne through the middle ages by residents in very many parts of.
        3. William Shakespeare (c.
        4. The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and.
        5. A plain and practical narrative of the great dramatist's personal history as concisely as the needs of clearness and completeness would permit.

          6. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar the Peacemaker by his first wife, the beautiful Ethelflaeda Eneda (White-Duck). The lady died shortly after the birth of her son and, after her death, Edgar remarried Aelfthrith, daughter of Ealdorman Ordgar of Devonshire.

          She bore him two sons, Edmund, who died young, and Aethelred. Edward was thirteen years old when his father died in AD 975. An admirable youth, upright in all his dealings and fearing God, he was elected to the throne by the Witan, largely under the influence of St.

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          Dunstan and Ealdorman Aethelwin of East Anglia.

          On 18th March AD 978, when Edward was only sixteen, he was assassinated under controversial circumstances. In reality, this surrounded a magnetic power struggle, led by the Mercian anti-monastic party who favoured Edward�s half-brother.

          However, legend tells a very different story. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not record the King�s assassin, only that he was killed at eventide at Corfe Castle in Dorset.