Edward the Confessor
King of England from 1042 to 1066, consecrated at Winchester on Easter Day 1043. He died in January 1066 and was buried in his new church at Westminster.
king 1042–1066
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154, in the edition of John Earle (Oxford, 1865) · entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155
Her wæs Æðward gehalgod to cyng on Winceastre on Æster dæg mid mycclum wurðscipe. and þa wæron Eastron on iii non' Apr'. Eadsige arc̃b' hine halgode. and foran eallum folce hine well lærde. and to his agenre neode and ealles folces well monude. [...]
In this year Edward was consecrated king at Winchester on Easter Day, with great ceremony. Easter fell that year on April 3. Archbishop Eadsige consecrated him. In front of all the people he gave the king good teaching, and urged him to look after his own good and the good of all the people.
On þissum geare man halgode þet mynster æt West mynstre on Cilda mæsse dæg. And se cyng Eadward forðferde on twelfta mæsse æfen. and hine mann bebyrgede on twelftan mæsse dæg. innan þære niwa halgodre circean on Westmynstre. And Harold eorl feng to Engla landes cyne rice. swa swa se cyng hit him ge uðe. and eac men hine þær tó gecuron. and wæs gebletsod to cynge on twelftan mæsse dæg. [...]
In this year the minster at Westminster was consecrated on Holy Innocents’ Day. And King Edward died on the eve of Twelfth Day and was buried on Twelfth Day, in the newly consecrated church at Westminster. And Earl Harold came to the throne of England, as the king had granted it to him, and the people also chose him for it. He was blessed as king on Twelfth Day.