King Edmund II of England killed by servants of Eadric Streona in Oxford, 1016. The assassins wrestle with the king wearing a crown. King Edmund Slain. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones’ History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.

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