Image: WinchesterCathedral Chest1

Description: Royal Mortuary Chest at Winchester Cathedral. Rennaissance-style chest (Tudor era) inscription translated as: "King Edmund died in the year of Our Lord .... This case here holds Edmund - Oh Christ support him - who with his father (still) living bore the royal sceptre". Following from: http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/saxon_35.html ; "The identity of King Edmund, also buried in the chests is unknown. His date of birth has been omitted, he is thought not to be Edmund the Elder, who was buried at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset. He is claimed by Thomas Rudborne in his 'Historia Major', to be the eldest son of Alfred the Great who was crowned in his father's lifetime but died in infancy. However neither the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle or Asser's Life of Alfred mention this supposed son. An inscription on a stone, dating to the twelfth century and now set in the stone bench beneath the south presbytery screen of the cathedtral reads 'Hic iacet Edmundus Rex Eþeldredi regis filius' (Here lies King Edmund, son of King Ethelred). Edmund Ironside, the son of Ethelred the Redeless is recorded to have been buried near his grandfather Edgar at Glastonbury Abbey but it is not impossible for his bones to have been translated to Winchester by his successor, Canute, who married his step mother.
Title: WinchesterCathedral Chest1
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