If Orderic Vitalis is to be relied upon, one of Malcolm's earliest actions as King may have been to travel south to the court of Edward the Confessor in 1059 to arrange a marriage with Edward's kinswoman Margaret, who had arrived in England two years before from Hungary.

Edward's two younger brothers, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( later King Richard III of England ), were married to Isabella Neville and Anne Neville.

Ultimately, despite his military and administrative genius, Edward's dynasty survived him by little more than two years, but Edward was one of the few male members of his dynasty to die of natural causes.

Edward's coronation had originally been scheduled for 26 June, but two days before on 24 June, Edward was diagnosed with appendicitis.

All of the surviving Edward charters concern the royal heartland of Wessex ; two deal with Crediton where Edward's former tutor Sideman was bishop.

When her brother, King Charles IV of France, seized Edward's French possessions in 1325, she returned to France, initially as a delegate of the King charged with negotiating a peace treaty between the two countries.

On 5 September 1550 Cecil was sworn in as one of King Edward's two Secretaries of State.

The rank insignia for a rear-admiral is two gold maple leaves beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by St Edward's Crown, worn on shoulder boards and slip-ons on uniforms other than the service dress tunic.

Louis accordingly tried to break the two apart, by offering the hand of his elder daughter, Anne, to Charles, that of his younger daughter, Joan, to Edward's youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and that of his brother-in-law, Philip of Bresse, to Margaret.

Leofric served as Edward's chaplain, although how or when exactly the two met is unknown.

Without seeking the Queen's permission, the two were married in December 1560 in a secret ceremony at Edward's house in Canon Row, with Jane Seymour being the only witness.

His daughter was Edward's queen, and two of his sons were elevated to earldoms.

But good relations were soon restored between the two, and the archbishop acted as president of the council during Edward's absence from England in 1345 and 1346, although he never regained his former position of influence.

Together, Richard and Buckingham spread the rumour that Edward's two sons are illegitimate, and therefore have no rightful claim to the throne ; they are assisted by Catesby, Ratcliffe, and Lovell.

Sir Edward's son was Arthur Denny, in whose lifetime the town's charter was granted by King James, containing the right to elect two members of parliament.

Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

Edward's accountants did not separate the costs of the town walls from that of the castle, and the total cost of the two projects came to around £ 15, 000, a huge sum for the period.

Edward's father, the oldest son, and his two paternal uncles, Keelinge and Joseph, received little to sustain them.

Edward's paternal grandmother, Emmete Freeman, immediately took charge of the three survivors, Edward and his two sisters, Sarah and Emma, aged 13 and 10 respectively, bringing them to her home at Weston-super-Mare.

A Yorkist force under John Neville raced north in vanguard of Edward's larger force and the two sides met outside Hexham on 14 May 1464.

Peg's neighbors are impressed by Edward's adept hedge-trimming and hair-cutting skills ( both of which he does with his scissor-hands ), but two of the townspeople, a religious fanatic named Esmeralda ( O-Lan Jones ) and Kim's boyfriend, Jim ( Anthony Michael Hall ), immediately dislike him.

* the weddings of her sons and daughter ( Anne's in 1973, Charles ' two weddings in 1981 and 2005, Andrew's in 1986, and Edward's in 1999 ; Anne's second wedding in 1992 was not commemorated )

As the Sovereign holds the two sceptres, the Archbishop of Canterbury places St Edward's Crown on his or her head.

There is unconfirmed speculation that Warbeck could have been another of Edward's illegitimate sons.

Edward's suspicions about the fathering of Catherine Fillol's sons led him to have enacted in 1540, during his term as Lord Protector, an Act of Parliament entailing his estates away from the children of his first wife in preference of the children of Anne Seymour, his second wife.

Around the end of May or early June Edward's condition worsened dramatically and he corrected his draft such that Lady Jane Grey herself, not just her putative sons, could inherit the Crown.

He was succeeded by his grandson, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who aided Richard III in his claiming the throne in 1483 ( Edward IV of England's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville having been declared null and void and Edward's sons illegitimate by Act of Parliament Titulus Regius ), but who then led a revolt against Richard and was executed later that same year.

In committing her to a convent, Edward's aim was not only to prevent her from marrying and having sons who might lay claim to the Principality of Wales, but also to hide her away, unknown to the outside world.

With the Despensers ' return to Edward's court Lleucu and her sons were again imprisoned ( now in Bristol Castle ).

In this the Plantagenets were led by Edward's sons Edward, the Black Prince and John of Gaunt.

When King Henry died ( 1580 ), Edward's issue were the only surviving legitimate heirs of any of the sons of King Manuel I of Portugal.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

But although in many of these discussions Othon and Amadee might have been tempted to consider their own interests as well as those of the king, Edward's confidence in them was so absolute that they were made the acknowledged leaders of the embassy.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Mary set about trying to restore Roman Catholicism by making sure that: Edward's religious laws were abolished in the Statute of Repeal Act ( 1553 ); the Protestant religious laws passed in the time of Henry VIII were repealed ; and the Revival of the Heresy Acts were passed in 1554.

Royal writs were issued in Edward's name by Isabella from Kenilworth until the next year.

Urgent letters were sent ordering Bruce to support Edward's commander, John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey ( to whom Bruce was related ) in the summer of 1297 ; but instead of complying, Bruce continued to support the revolt against Edward.

On the night of 29 April Richard met and dined with Earl Rivers and Edward's half-brother, Richard Grey, but the following morning Rivers and Grey, along with the king's chamberlain, Thomas Vaughan, were arrested and sent north.

The wealth of Edward's lands exceeded that of the greatest earls, but they were scattered among the southern earldoms.

Following Edward's canonisation, these were regarded as holy relics, and thereafter they were used at all English coronations from the 13th century until the destruction of the regalia by Oliver Cromwell in 1649.

In December, more than 200 of Edward's tenants in Newcastle were summoned to form a militia by March 1296 and in February, a fleet sailed north to meet with his land forces in Newcastle.

In October, the Earls of Lancaster, Warwick, Arundel and Hereford were forced to beg Edward's pardon.

Hoping to win Edward's favour, these nobles were willing to aid the king in his revenge against the barons and thus increase their own wealth and power.

Among others who committed themselves to the Ninth Crusade were Edward's former adversaries — like the earl of Gloucester, though the earl did not ultimately participate.

Though Edward's men were an important addition to the garrison, they stood little chance against Baibars ' superior forces, and an initial raid at nearby St Georges-de-Lebeyne in June was largely futile.

Initial operations were launched under the captaincy of Mortimer, Lancaster ( Edward's brother Edmund ) and William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.

As far as the crusades were concerned, however, Edward's efforts proved ineffective.

Other Anglo-Saxon kings had included Edward the Elder and Edward the Martyr, and numerals were still not commonly used in Edward's time ; as the first post-Conquest king to carry that name, he

Edward's later years, however, were marked by international failure and domestic strife, largely as a result of his inactivity and bad health.

While Edward's early reign had been energetic and successful, his later years were marked by inertia, military failure and political strife.

Compounding Edward's difficulties were the deaths of his most trusted men, some from the 1361 – 62 recurrence of the plague.

The middle years of Edward's reign were a period of significant legislative activity.

Warwick then attempted to rule in Edward's name, but the nobility, many of whom owed their preferments to the king, were restive, and with the emergence of a counter-rebellion, Warwick was forced to release Edward.