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EDWARD, called the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, reigned 1043-1066. Pope Alexander III canonized him in 1161. An earlier Edward, called Edward the Martyr, appears in English martyrology; born c. 962, he died in Dorset in 978 (NCE V: 181).
The Monk announces that his tale will be about Saint Edward, MkP 1970-1972, referring, most likely, to Edward the Confessor. [Piers1]
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. and trans by G.N. Garmonsway, 162-163, 193-195; W. Scholz, "The Canonization of Edward the Confessor." Speculum 36 (1961): 38-60; The South-English Legendary, ed. C.D. D'Evelyn and A.J. Mill, I: 110-118.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.
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