Edmund I was stabbed to death at his own feast at Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire on 26 May 946, while grappling with a convicted thief named Leofa whom he had seen and tried to eject. The Chronicle records the event in sparse terms. Edmund death was politically catastrophic: he was only in his mid-twenties and had been steadily consolidating the gains of the reconquest. His younger brother Eadred succeeded and continued the campaign to permanently secure Northumbria.
Edmund I court; the thief Leofa
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