Edmund THE MAGNIFICENT

Edmund THE MAGNIFICENT, king of the English from 940 to 946, was born probably about 922. The early years of his reign were spent in an attempt to subdue the north of England to his rule, which occasioned a revolt; this, however, he succeeded in putting down, and then he proceeded to conquer Mercia and the five towns of the Danish confederacy, in 941 or 944, and also Cumbria, which he intrusted to Malcolm of Scotland, on condition that he should be 'his fellow-worker by sea and land.' Edmund was slain by an outlaw at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, on 26th May 946.