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Edmund I - The Magnificent: 940-946
Edmund the Magnificent came to the throne in 940AD at the age of 18, and was the first king to inherit a united England. He subsequently lost territory in the north to King Olaf of Dublin, but this was quickly reconquered after a brokered peace was broken.

Edmund died suddenly in 946AD after ruling for only six years. Upon discovering the outlawed bandit Liofa in his court, Edmund and his followers took up arms against him. In the struggle that followed, Edmund received a fatal stab wound to the stomach. He was buried in Glastonbury abbey, the church to which he had appointed the famous St Dunstan as abbot.
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