- Paperback: 222 pages
- Publisher: Boydell Press; New edition edition (17 Sep 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0851157858
- ISBN-13: 978-0851157856
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,046,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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His detective work is elegant and impressive. DAILY TELEGRAPH
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When Edward Ironside was murdered in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex. The following year, conscious of the threat posed to his rule by Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward Ætheling, he banished them to Sweden, with a `letter of death'. The Swedish king, however, spared their lives, and the Continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began; their uncertain fate greatly exercised the minds of contemporary English chroniclers. Forty years later the ageing, childless Edward the Confessor learned that his nephew Edward was living in Hungary; he invited him to return home, casting him in a crucial role in the struggle to avert a Norman takeover, but forty-eight hours after his triumphant homecoming he was dead, and the events that were to lead to the Norman conquest of 1066 were set in motion. Drawing on sources from as far afield as Iceland and Kievan Russia, this account of the extraordinary years of the princes' exile is a story stranger than fiction, unravelled by Gabriel Ronay with all the excitement of a modern-day crime study. GABRIEL RONAY wrote for The Times for many years. He was born in Transylvania, and studied at the universities of Budapest and Edinburgh. He came to Britain after the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. `Popularly written but scholarly book.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAfter the murder of Edmund Ironside in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex, banishing Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward, to Sweden with a `letter of death'.However, their lives were spared and the continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began. Gabriel Ronay fills in the years of their exile concluding with Edward's death forty years later, just forty-eight hours after his triumphant return to England.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Had King Edmund Ironside's sons Edward & Edmund not been smuggled out of England to protect them from Danish King Canute, and had they not been caught up in the political affairs of Russia & Hungary, and had Edward not been murdered on his return to England when Edward The Confessor wished to appoint him heir instead of the imminent French Norman takeover of Anglo Saxon England, then we may have been living in a different country today. So many "Ifs" and questions, so many possible outcomes, this book reads like a modern-day thriller and throws up all the injustices and frightening uncertainties of Medieval England and beyond. Easy to read and well informed in its material and revelations, this book is a great find. Only occasionally does Ronay get stuck in rather technical cross-referencing as he tries to prove some more tenuous conclusions and theories (such as the actual identity of Edward's wife Agatha's mother & father) but overall this is a good bed-time read, and it will make you want to read other similar historical titles of the period - I did after finishing this 11th Century thriller!
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A worthwhile addition to medieval biographies
4 Aug 2001
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The Lost King of England provides a vivid picture of the lives of the exiled sons of Edmund Ironside, Edmund and Edward Atheling. The book is well written and should be a welcome addition to medieval biographies on English Royalty.
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