Edward (Saxe) Wessex

1002 - 1066  (64 years)

• Name	Edward (Saxe) Wessex  [1]
  Birth	1002	Islip, Oxfordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Name	St Edward the Confessor
  Occupation	Between 1042 and 1066  [2]
  	King of England
  Death	5 Jan 1066	Hastings, Sussex, England
  Person ID	I838	MontyHistNotes_II
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2025

  
  

  Father	Ethelred II Wessex,   b. 968, Winchester, Hampshire, England d. 23 Apr 1016, London, England (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Emma Normandy,   b. 982, Haute-Normandie, France d. 6 Mar 1052, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F363	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edith of Wessex
  Marriage	23 Jan 1045
  Family ID	F368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1002 - Islip, Oxfordshire, England Death - 5 Jan 1066 - Hastings, Sussex, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S273] Montgomery, Bo-Gabriel de, Origin and History of the Montgomerys, (Name: William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd; Location: Edinburgh and London; Date: 1948;), Chapter (Page 044) Roger II - Montgomerys of Normandy. This book is available electronically on ancestry.com [S202] Kings of England, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs.