Edward the Confessor
Also known as Ēadƿeard se Andettere, Saint Edward the Confessor, Eduard der Bekenner, Saint Edward 'the Confessor', King of England, St Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex.
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Edward the Confessor was the King of England from 1042 until 1066 and the final monarch of the House of Wessex, the royal dynasty that had ruled England for centuries. His reign marked the end of an era in English history, as the throne passed to a new line of rulers after his death.
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Edward the Confessor (1003/1005 – 5 January 1066) was King of the English from 1042 until his death in 1066. He was the last reigning monarch of the House of Wessex.
Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut. He restored the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066, he was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year at the Battle of Hastings by the Normans under William the Conqueror. Edward's young great-nephew Edgar Ætheling of the House of Wessex was proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings, but was never crowned and was peacefully deposed after about eight weeks.