Edward the Elder
Edward the Elder (c. 874– 17 July 924) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death.
He was the elder son of Alfred the Great and his wife Ealhswith.
When Edward succeeded to the throne, he had to defeat a challenge from his cousin Æthelwold, who had a strong claim to the throne as the son of Alfred's elder brother and predecessor, Æthelred.
Alfred had succeeded Æthelred as king of Wessex in 871, and almost faced defeat against the Danish Vikings until his decisive victory at the Battle of Edington in 878.
After the battle, the Vikings still ruled Northumbria, East Anglia and eastern Mercia, leaving only Wessex and western Mercia under Anglo-Saxon control.
In the early 880s Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, the ruler of western Mercia, accepted Alfred's lordship and married his daughter Æthelflæd, and around 886 Alfred adopted the new title King of the Anglo-Saxons as the ruler of all Anglo-Saxons not subject to Danish rule.
In 910 a Mercian and West Saxon army inflicted a decisive defeat on an invading Northumbrian army, ending the threat from the northern Vikings.
In the 910s, Edward conquered Viking-ruled southern England in partnership with his sister Æthelflæd, who had succeeded as Lady of the Mercians following the death of her husband in 911.
Historians dispute how far Mercia was dominated by Wessex during this period, and after Æthelflæd's death in June 918, her daughter Ælfwynn, briefly became second Lady of the Mercians, but in December Edward took her into Wessex and imposed direct rule on Mercia.
By the end of the 910s he ruled Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia, and only Northumbria remained under Viking rule.
In 924 he faced a Mercian and Welsh revolt at Chester, and after putting it down he died at Farndon in Cheshire on 17 July 924.
He was succeeded by his eldest son Æthelstan.
Edward was admired by medieval chroniclers, and in the view of William of Malmesbury, he was "much inferior to his father in the cultivation of letters" but "incomparably more glorious in the power of his rule".
He was largely ignored by modern historians until the 1990s, and Nick Higham described him as "perhaps the most neglected of English kings", partly because few primary sources for his reign survive.
His reputation rose in the late twentieth century and he is now seen as destroying the power of the Vikings in southern England while laying the foundations for a south-centred united English kingdom.
Isabel Despenser, Countess of Warwick
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick, LG( 26 July 1400 – 27 December 1439) was the posthumous daughter and eventually the sole heiress of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester( died 1399) by his wife, Constance of York, daughter of Edmund of Langley( son of King Edward III of England).
She was born six months after her father had been beheaded for plotting against King Henry IV of England( 1399 – 1413).
Edmund I
Edmund I (pronounced ; 92126 May 946) was King of the English from 939 until his death.
His epithets include "the Elderthe Deed-doerthe
Just", and "the Magnificent".
Edmund was the son of Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent, and a grandson of Alfred the Great.
His father died when he was young, and was succeeded by his oldest son Æthelstan.
Edmund came to the throne upon the death of his half-brother in 939, apparently with little opposition.
His reign was marked by almost constant warfare, including conquests or reconquests of the Midlands, Northumbria, and Strathclyde (the last of which was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland).
Edmund was assassinated after six-and-a-half years as king, while attending Mass in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire.
He was initially succeeded by his brother Eadred, but his two sonsEadwig and Edgar the Peacefulboth later came to the throne.
Constance of York, Countess of Gloucester
Constance of York, Countess of Gloucester( – 28 November 1416) was the only daughter of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and his wife Isabella of Castile, daughter of King Peter of Castile and his favourite mistress, María de Padilla.
Richard Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh
Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh( 1396 – 1414) was the son and heir of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester( 1373 – 1400), by Constance of York.
Constance was a daughter of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, fourth surviving son of Edward III of England, and Isabella of Castile, a daughter of Peter of Castile.
He was married to his 2nd cousin Lady Eleanor Neville( a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, a brother of Edmund of York), but died young without leaving issue.
His heir was his younger sister Isabel, who married successively Earl of Worcester, and then his cousin, Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.
His widow Eleanor, Lady Burghersh remarried to Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland.
Edward, 2nd Duke of York
Edward, 2nd Duke of York, , (– 25 October 1415) was an English nobleman and magnate, the eldest son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and a grandson of King Edward III of England.
He held significant appointments during the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, and is also known for his translation of the hunting treatise "The Master of Game".
He was slain at the Battle of Agincourt, one of the principal military engagements of the Hundred Years' War against France, in 1415.
Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell
Margaret Wake," suo jure" 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent( c. 1297 – 19 September 1349) was the wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, the youngest surviving son of Edward I of England and Margaret of France.
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk( 1 June 13004 August 1338), was the fifth son of King Edward I of England( 1272 – 1307), and the eldest child by his second wife, Margaret of France, the daughter of King Philip III of France.
He was, therefore, a younger half- brother of King Edward II( 1307 – 1327) and a full brother of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent.
He occupied the office of Earl Marshal of England.
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge( c. July 1385 – 5 August 1415) was the second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and Isabella of Castile.
He was beheaded for his part in the Southampton Plot, a conspiracy against King Henry V.
He was the father of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and the grandfather of King Edward IV and King Richard III.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, KG (5 June 13411 August 1402) was the fourth surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
Like many medieval English princes, Edmund gained his nickname from his birthplace: Kings Langley Palace in Hertfordshire.
He was the founder of the House of York, but it was through the marriage of his younger son, Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, to Anne de Mortimer, great-granddaughter of Edmund's elder brother Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, that the House of York made its claim to the English throne in the Wars of the Roses.
The other party in the Wars of the Roses, the incumbent House of Lancaster, was formed from descendants of Edmund's elder brother John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Edward III's third son.

Question: Where was the place of death of Edmund I's father?
Answer: Farndon