<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ironside" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edmund Ironside">Edmund Ironside</a> succeeds his father <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æthelred_the_Unready" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Æthelred the Unready">Æthelred the Unready</a> as King of England.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_23#cite_note-1" id="mwLg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwLw">[1]</span></a></sup>
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