Timeline
Birth Year
What is 1003?
Feast Day
What is October 13?
Building that he had built where rulers of England are laid to rest
What is Westminster Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey?
Year he ascended to the throne of England
What is 1042?
Wife's name
Who was Edith of Wessex?
Year Canonized and by whom
Who was Pope Alexander III in 1161?
His nickname
What is St. Edward the Confessor?
The unjust tax that he abolished, relieving a burden from his people
What is Danegeld or Heregeld?
Who he followed in succession to the throne
Who was Canute, the Danish King?
How many children he and his wife had
What is 0?
Date of Death
What was Jan 5, 1066?
what he was known for
What is his piety and generousity/dislike of wealth?
Kings, difficult marriages, and separated spouses
What he is patron saint of?
Age at ascension to the throne
What is 40?
Parents' names
What is Ethelred the Unready and Emma?
When he was exiled from England
What is 1016?
Where he was raised
Where is Normandy?
How often England was plagued with war during his reign
What is 0?
What he did with most of his wealth
What is gave it away?
He was considered to be the last king of this House
What is Wessex?
When he fell sick with "a malady of the brain"
What is November of 1065?
How he and his wife lived
What is in celibacy?
Which royal custom he started
What is touching people to heal them?
Length of time he ruled
What is 24 years?
How many siblings Edward had
What is 14?