Buy this book on-line RONAY Gabriel : The Lost King of England, the East European Adventures of Edward the ExileBoydell, Woodbridge, 2000 ISBN 0851157858
8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. near fine copy, sewn sections in pictorial stiff paper / card wrappers, first soft cover edition, x 212pp illustrated, 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 AEtheling, 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.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of RONAY Gabriel : The Lost King of England, the East European Adventures of Edward the Exile. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, used books, libri antichi, out of print books and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |