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Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was a man of great prayer - rather like a crowned monk. He was hailed throughout his life as a gentle, loyal and devoted king.
Edward the Confessor on Henry VII's tomb grille ©A confessor is a saint who suffers for his faith but is one step short of martyrdom.
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Edward suffered for his faith by resisting the temptations of the world. He lived off the income of his own lands and reached out to the poor.
Edward the Confessor was born in Islip, near Oxford, probably in 1005. He was the son of King Ethelred the Unready and his Norman queen, Emma.
The family spent several years in exile in Normandy after the Danish invasion of 1013.
Ethelred was briefly reinstated as king but after his death in 1016, the Danes once again seized the crown.
England was ruled by Canute until his death in 1035 when Edward tried to capture the crown himself but failed.
Later, Edward vowed that he would make a pilgrimage to St Peter's in Rome if he managed to ret