King Edward The Confessor
1003 – 1066 · Generation VI · King of the English (r. 1042–1066)
Edward the Confessor (1003–1066). King of the English (r. 1042–1066). Married Edith of Wessex in 1045. Builder of Westminster Abbey; his childless death opened the great succession crisis of 1066.
Parents
- King Aethelred II The Unready (966 – 1016)
- Emma of Normandy (985 – 1052)
Partners
- Edith of Wessex (1025 – 1075)