General Notes

[from Ancestry.com 139798.GED]
Edmund  was murdered by an outlaw, Leolf, who stabbed him at a banquet to St. Augustine. Edmund expelled the Norse King Olaf from Northumbria in 944. He supported Dunstan in the introduction of the Monastic rule of St. Benedict.
The first of six Boy Kings, he reigned from 939-946. He had to meet a general uprising of the Danes of Mercia as well as those of the North. In the suppression of this he showed himself to be a great statesman as well as a great warrior. Little is definitely known about the policy of the Scots at this time but it appears that they joined the English whenever they were afraid of the Danes, and joined the Danes whenever they were afraid of the English. Edmund made it to be the interest of the Scottish King permanently to join the English. The southern part of the kingdom of Strathclyde had for sime time been under the English Kings. In 945 Edmund took the remainder, but gave it to Malcolm on condition that he should be his fellow worker by sea and land. The king of the Scots thus entered into a position of dependent alliance towards Edmund. A great step was thus taken; the dominant powers on the island were to be English and Scots, not English and Danes. Edmund thought it worth while to conciliate the Scottish Celts rather than to endeavor to conquer them. The result of Edmund's statemanship was soon seen but he did not live to gather its fruits. On 26 May 946 an outlaw named Lief, who had taken his seat at a banquet in his hall, slew him as Edmund was attempting to drag him out by his hair. He married Elgiva (Aelfgifu), known as the "Fairies Gift", who died in 944.