Edward the Confessor, king of England, married Edith, daughter of the great Earl Godwin (q.v.); was a feeble monarch of ascetic proclivities; his appeal to the Duke of Normandy precipitated the Norman invasion, and in him perished the royal Saxon line; was canonised for his piety (1004‒1066).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Edward VII. * Edward the Elder