Four rivals. One throne. The death of Edward the Confessor set off a chain of events that would end an era—and decide the fate of England forever.

Upon the holy festival of Easter, King Edward the Confessor, wearing his royal crown, sat at dinner in his palace of Westminster, surrounded by many of his nobles. While others, after the long ...

Students in Marla Chapotel's fourth-grade class at St. Edward the Confessor School in Metairie have been studying the properties of a combination of cornstarch and water known as oobleck, with an ...

Sallot, the pastor at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church, is leaving the parish to become the vicar general of the Diocese of Orange.

A gilded silver coin brooch that was the height of fashion during the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) has been found by a metal detectorist. The discovery was made in August 2020 near ...

Edward, called the Confessor, was born at Islip in Oxfordshire between 1002 and 1005, the son of King Ethelred 'the Unready' and Emma. Driven from England by the Danes, and spending his exile in ...

Edward was the son of Ethelred II and was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England who was known as 'The Confessor' because of his piety.

In 1066, the English king Edward the Confessor lay dying in his bed. Three powerful men had strong claims to succeed him, but only Harold Godwinson was close enough to grab power.