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2 mag 2024 · William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (born May 6, 1880, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Sept. 22, 1959, London, Eng.) was a British field marshal. After serving in the South African War, he commanded Allied forces in World War I in northern Russia (1918) and later in northern Persia (1920).
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2 giorni fa · Prince Edmund remained in London, still unsubdued behind its walls, and was elected king after the death of Æthelred on 23 April 1016. Siege of London Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris.
8 mag 2024 · In 1015 he returned and began a long struggle with Aethelred’s son Edmund II Ironside. Earl Uhtred of Northumbria submitted to Canute in 1016 and was murdered in his hall. After Aethelred died in April 1016, the English witan (council) elected Canute king at Southampton, but those councillors who were in London, with the citizens ...
4 giorni fa · The first notice we have of it is that Edmund Ironside gave it to Hitard, his jester, who, on going to Rome, gave it to Christ Church, Canterbury. In King Edward's time it was taxed for five hides (500 acres), but at the time of the survey, for three hides and a half only, nearly onethird less.
14 mag 2024 · Two days later, General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, confided to his diary, ‘ [w]e shall have lost practically all our trained soldiers by the next few days—unless a miracle appears to help us’. (5)
5 giorni fa · Edmund Ironside having obliged the Danes to raise the siege of London in the year 1016, pursued them to Brentford, where he defeated them with great slaughter.
3 giorni fa · Tardebigge is said to have been purchased from King Ethelred in the 10th century by Ethelsige, a Dean of Worcester, for his church, but after the death of the latter it was seized by Ævic, Sheriff of Staffordshire, during the war between Edmund Ironside and Cnut (c. 1016).
