Edward the Martyr Murder
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- Edward the Martyr Murder
- 8 July 975 – 18 March 978
- Predecessor: Edgar
- Successor: Aethelred
- Killed: 18 March 978 Corfe Castle, Dorset, England
- (aged 15–16)
- Power struggle:
- Edward and Ethelred had been on opposite sides of a succession
- Dispute following the death of their father, Edgar
- Elfryda may have plotted to put her own son on the throne.
- Edward and Ethelred had been on opposite sides of a succession
- Reburied at Shaftesbury Abbey
- His remains came to be regarded as sacred relics
- Remains hidden during the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.
- A cult developed around his memory.
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