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Subject: Re: EDWARD THE EXILE, Please clarify for me
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:56:52 +0300

In article <3r9a46$>, Anders M. Berg <>
wrote:

> > >takes baby Edward and brother Edmund to Sweden (where they were wards of
> > ^^^^^^
> > Is this name right? I don't remember off hand, but it was extremely
> > unusual to have a son named for the father in Anglo-Saxon England.
> >
>
> Maybe he was born posthumous? Edmund Ironside died 1016, what do we
> know about the time of birth for his sons?
> It was a rule to name a son after his father if, and only if, the father had died prior to
> the child's birth. This was the case in Scandinavia, what about AS England?
>
> Anders

AHA!! Now I see what Todd was getting at also.
My same source also states: "Because Edmund II's marriage lasted no more
than 15 months we are led to believe that his two sons Edmund and Edwards
were either twins or the younger was born pothumously."
So things appear to fall into place; and once again, I have learned
something new. :-)) Thanks, everyone.

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