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<p><b>Edward the Confessor</b>, also known as <b>Saint Edward the Confessor</b>, was among the last <a href="/pages/w/111192345572669">Anglo-Saxon</a> <a href="/pages/w/110808612275836">kings of England</a>. Usually considered the last king of the <a href="/pages/w/112846708764278">House of Wessex</a>, he ruled from 1042 to 1066.</p><p>The son of <a href="/pages/w/112931025400177">Æthelred the Unready</a> and <a href="/pages/w/102318596489575">Emma of Normandy</a>, Edward succeeded <a href="/pages/w/1374392356211896">Cnut the Great</a>'s son – and his own half brother – <a href="/pages/w/108151335884660">Harthacnut</a>, restoring the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut (better known as Canute) conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066, he was succeeded by <a href="/pages/w/108289539191913">Harold Godwinson</a>, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the <a href="/pages/w/112897388724030">Normans</a> under <a href="/pages/w/112441228771195">William the Conqueror</a> at the <a href="/pages/w/109221049103456">Battle of Hastings</a>. <a href="/pages/w/1175624965864053">Edgar the Ætheling</a>, who was of the House of Wessex, was proclaimed king after the <a href="/pages/w/109221049103456">Battle of Hastings</a> in 1066, but never ruled and was deposed after about eight weeks.</p><p>Historians disagree about Edward's fairly long (24-year) reign. His nickname reflects the traditional image of him as unworldly and pious. <a href="/pages/w/111060135613515">Confessor</a> reflects his reputation as a <a href="/pages/w/109575285727542">saint</a> who did not suffer <a href="/pages/w/108025142564925">martyrdom</a>, as opposed to King <a href="/pages/w/116789551668031">Edward the Martyr</a>. Some portray Edward the Confessor's reign as leading to the disintegration of royal power in England and the advance in power of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Godwin" class="wikipedia">House of Godwin</a>, due to the infighting that began after his heirless death. Biographers <a href="/pages/w/103409359700079">Frank Barlow</a> and Peter Rex, on the other hand, portray Edward as a successful king, one who was energetic, resourceful and sometimes ruthless; they argue that the Norman conquest shortly after his death tarnished his image. However, Richard Mortimer argues that the return of the Godwins from exile in 1052 "meant the effective end of his exercise of power", citing Edward's reduced activity as implying "a withdrawal from affairs".</p>
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