Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia), who died 20 November 869, was king of East Anglia from about 855 until his death. He is thought to have been the son of Æthelweard, an obscure East Anglian king, whom it was said Edmund succeeded when he was 14. Later versions of Edmund's life relate that he was crowned on 25 December 855 at Burna (probably Bures St...