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Edmund I 921-46
King of the English

The son of Edward, the Elder, he succeeded his half-brother, Athelstan, in 939. He re-established English control of Mercia against the Norse Vikings of Northumbria, and re-conquered from them the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw whose Danish settlers now regarded themselves as English citizens. He subdued the Norsemen in Cumbria and Strathclyde, which he entrusted to Malcolm I of Scotland as an ally. He was killed at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, by an outlawed robber. His reign saw the beginning of the 10th century monastic revival.