Many of the Scottish Nobles had land in England and were used to Edward being in charge so they asked him to decide. This was Edward’s perfect chance to put his own King on the throne ...
The original wooden canopy to the tomb has gone and the present one is in the Perpendicular style. The Norman-French inscription around the tomb chest can be translated as Here lies Eleanor, sometime ...
5 minute read Edward, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was born in Islip, Oxfordshire, sometime between 1002 and 1005AD, the eighth son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. He was driven into ...