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Definition of Edward the Confessor

1. Noun. Son of Ethelred the Unready; King of England from 1042 to 1066; he founded Westminster Abbey where he was eventually buried (1003-1066).

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Literary usage of Edward the Confessor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"I King Edward the Confessor extracted one uniform law or digest of laws, to be observed ... Both these undertakings, of King Edgar and Edward the Confessor, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and that of the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey was laid, and the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, with its inlaid mosaic, was executed. ..."

3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"ON the death of Edward the Confessor (January 5, 1066), the succession to the Crown was disputed. The heir of the house of Cerdic, ..."

4. The Schools of Medieval England by Arthur Francis Leach (1915)
"CHAPTER VI THE SCHOOLS FROM EDWARD THE ELDER TO Edward the Confessor THE influence and the example of Alfred in his insistence on the importance of ..."

5. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Edward the Confessor becomes King of England. ... 1 Edward the Confessor. AD 1042. Edward the Confessor, youngest son of king Ethelred, (his elder brethren ..."

6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"... his sudden death gave as little surprise as it did sorrow to his subjects. Edward the Confessor. [1041.] The English, on the death of Hardicanute, ..."

7. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Edward the Confessor—HAROLD—WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. ING CANUTE, whose adventures at the watering-place my young friend Mr. Simcoe described last week in such ..."

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