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Definition of Edmund Ironside
1. Noun. King of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edmund Ironside
Literary usage of Edmund Ironside
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"1 Edmund Ironside. AD 1016. Here let state-historians inform the reader of
intestine wars betwixt Edmund Ironside, (so called for his hardy enduring all ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"From Egbert to Edmund Ironside (802-1016).— From Egbert to the death of Edmund
Ironside, a period of above two hundred years, the crown descended regularly, ..."
3. The Dictionary of English History by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1884)
"... and in the same year, after making an attempt on the life of Edmund Ironside,
... Edmund Ironside ..."
4. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"... Edmund Ironside, whom we now hear of for the first time, but who was to be
the protagonist in the next two years' combat. ..."
5. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Ethelred—Settlement of the Normans—Edmund Ironside—Canute—Harold Harefoot—Hardicanute—Edward
the Confessor— Harold. Ethelred. THE freedom which England had ..."
6. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"... Edmund Ironside, whom we now hear of for the first time, but who was to be
the protagonist in the next two years' combat. ..."
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