What is Edward the Exile?
{{Infobox Royalty | name = Edward | image = Edward the Exile.jpg | caption = Edward in the early 14th-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England | spouse = {{marriage|[[Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile|Agatha of Kiev]]|1046}} | issue = {{plainlist| * [[Edgar Atheling]] * [[Saint Margaret of Scotland|Margaret, Queen of Scots]] * Cristina }} | issue-type = [[Issue (genealogy)|Issue]] | issue-link = #Family | issue-pipe = among others | house = [[House of Wessex|Wessex]] | father = [[Edmund II of England]] | mother = [[Ealdgyth (wife of Edmund Ironside)|Ealdgyth]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1016|1|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Winchester]], [[Hampshire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1057|4|19|1016|1|17|df=yes}} | death_place = near [[London]] | burial_date = 22 April 1057 | burial_place = [[St Paul's Cathedral|Old St Paul's Cathedral]] | religion = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] }} '''Edward the Exile''' (17 January 1016 — 19 April 1057) also known as '''Edward the Atheling''' was the [[heir apparent]] to the [[Kingdom of England]]. He was the oldest child of King [[Edmund II of England]] and [[Ealdgyth (wife of Edmund Ironside)|Ealdgyth]]. He spent most of his life in [[exile]] in [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] following his father being killed at the [[Battle of Assandun]] during [[Cnut the Great]]'s invasion of England in 1016. ==Life in exile== After the [[Danish conquest of England]] in 1016, [[Canute]] had Edward and his brother, [[Edmund Ætheling|Edmund]], sent to the Swedish court of [[Olof Skötkonung]]. Edward was a baby at the time.<ref name=Cannon80>John Cannon; Anne Hargreaves, ''The Kings and Queens of Britain'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 80</ref> Canute's [[wikt:agent|agent]]s apparently had orders to have the children [[murder]]ed. But they were quickly taken to [[Hungary]] where neither Canut or his agents could reach them.<ref name=Stenton397>Frank Stenton,