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Edmund Ironside

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Noun1.Edmund Ironside - king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)Edmund Ironside - king of the English who led resistance to Canute but was defeated and forced to divide the kingdom with Canute (980-1016)


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And it was British forces in Iran under General Edmund Ironside (later commander of British land forces during the Second World War) that helped put Reza Shah (father of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah overthrown in the Islamic revolution of 1979) on the Peacock throne.
In fact, on the basis of primogeniture, the royal succession in England should have passed on the death of King Edmund Ironside in 1016 to his sons Edmund (who died without issue) and Edward, and on Edward's death in 1057 to his son, Edgar the Aetheling and after Edgar's death (without issue) in 1125 to his nephew, David 1, King of Scots.
and given the possible answers a) Edward the Elder b) Edward the Confessor c) Edmund Ironside or d) Edward the Martyr.
 
 
 
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