<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of England">England</a> is left temporarily without a monarch after the death of King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_I" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edmund I">Edmund I</a> in a street fight, resulting in Edmund's brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadred" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eadred">Eadred</a> assuming the throne for the minority of Edmund's two sons.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_26#cite_note-3" id="mwKA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKQ">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWhitelock1979"><a href="./Dorothy_Whitelock" id="mwBpM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dorothy Whitelock">Whitelock, Dorothy</a>, ed. (1979) [1st edition 1955]. <i id="mwBpQ">English Historical Documents, Volume 1, c. 500–1042</i> (2nd<span id="mwBpU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). London: Routledge. p.<span id="mwBpY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>551. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBpc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBpg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-415-14366-0" id="mwBpk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-415-14366-0"><bdi id="mwBpo">978-0-415-14366-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBps" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=English+Historical+Documents%2C+Volume+1%2C+c.+500%E2%80%931042&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=551&amp;rft.edition=2nd&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=1979&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-415-14366-0&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+26"></span></span>