One of the most forgotten moments in English History is the murder of King Edward the Martyr. At one of England's greatest castles, Corfe Castle the young King would be brutally stabbed and murdered from behind in cunning fashion. It was an event that shocked Anglo-Saxon England, and following his death his half-brother became King, Aethelred.
King Edward had been caught up in a succession crisis when his father Edgar the Peaceful died, and as the eldest child of Edgar he was the rightful heir. However his father's third wife Aelfthryth wanted her own son Aethelred to become the King despite him being a few years younger than Edward. Edward was just a boy king himself, and during his 3 year reign on the throne he faced many problems in England including protests against the Church and the Monasteries.
However in 978 he decided to go and visit his half-brother Aethelred at Corfe Castle, and during this meeting when he was greeted by his step-mother's advisors he was brutally slain whilst on his horse. As he was given a drink of mead, the King of the English was stabbed from behind by an unknown attacker and killed. His horse then dragged his body, and Edward became Edward the Martyr. His death shocked the nation, as an Anglo-Saxon King had been brutally murdered in cold blood.
Today we look at the shocking and brutal murder of King Edward the Martyr.
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