Event: Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of king
Edmund 6
.succession to kingship
Asserted in:
Abbo.PassioEadmundi
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Scholarly Info
Description
Edmund 6
not so much elected out of natural succession as forced to rule
Primary Source Info
Original Text
...non tantum eligitur ex generis successione quantum rapitur ut eis praeesset....
Persons associated with this Event:
Recipient
:
Edmund 6
(
Saint; king of the East Angles, 855-869
)
Agent
:
Anonymous 703
(
Bishop and adviser of
Edmund 6
) : By the acclaim of the bishop
Locations associated with this Event:
East Anglia: (
Kingdom
), now
East Anglia, East Anglia