St Edmund the Martyr

GPTKB entity

Statements (45)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:King
gptkb:saint
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Great_Heathen_Army
gptkbp:birthDate circa 841
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Bury_St_Edmunds
gptkbp:canonizedBy pre-congregation
gptkbp:causeOfDeath killed by Vikings
gptkbp:commemoratedBy gptkb:St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral
St Edmund's Day
gptkbp:containsRelicsOf gptkb:Bury_St_Edmunds_Abbey
gptkbp:cultCenter gptkb:Bury_St_Edmunds
gptkbp:deathDate 20 November 869
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:East_Anglia
gptkbp:feastDay 20 November
gptkbp:gender male
gptkbp:hasLegend refused to renounce Christianity
beheaded by Vikings
tied to a tree and shot with arrows
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label St Edmund the Martyr
gptkbp:iconography wolf guarding his head
crowned king holding an arrow
gptkbp:kingdom gptkb:East_Anglia
gptkbp:languageSpoken gptkb:Old_English
gptkbp:mentionedIn gptkb:Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle
Abbo of Fleury's Passio Sancti Eadmundi
John Lydgate's Life of St Edmund
gptkbp:nationalSaintOf England (before St George)
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:martyrdom
defending Christianity against Vikings
gptkbp:parent Æthelweard of East Anglia (possible)
gptkbp:patronage gptkb:East_Anglia
pandemics
wolves
kings
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Æthelweard_of_East_Anglia
gptkbp:reign circa 855–869
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Christianity
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Oswald_of_East_Anglia
gptkbp:title gptkb:King
gptkb:martyrdom
gptkbp:veneratedIn gptkb:Anglican_Communion
gptkb:Eastern_Orthodox_Church
gptkb:Roman_Catholic_Church
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:St_Edmund_the_King_and_Martyr_and_St_Mary_Woolnoth
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7