Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of edward the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a site of a Roman villa and a Saxon palace ; it is the birthplace of Edward the Confessor , and was the site of a Royalist garrison during the Civil War . |
| 2 | Did God really care that the Lord 's Anointed , blessed with royal oils on hands , feet and brow , the descendant of St. Margaret with the blood of Edward the Confessor in his veins , had been destroyed , brought low , murdered , tossed off the top of a cliff like a spent leaf blown in the wind ? |
| 3 | She can remember Queen Victoria 's diamond Jubilee , and the coronation of Edward The Seventh . |
| 4 | Within seven years all his sons were dead too , and the West Saxon dynasty , in the person of Edward the Confessor , sat once more upon the throne of England . |
| 5 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 6 | The Life of Edward the Confessor , written some fifty years later , claims that when she was pregnant with him all the men of England took an oath to accept the child as king should it be a boy , while the Norman Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni of c.1053-4 alleges that he was anointed and consecrated king as a boy . |
| 7 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor , its population may have reached 2000 . |
| 8 | It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor , which began in 1042 . |
| 9 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor royal writs were authenticated by having a two-sided seal attached . |
| 10 | He perhaps promoted the cult of Edward the Martyr for similar reasons . |
| 11 | Easter alternative AS AN alternative to chocolate eggs , try a simnel cake , said to be an Easter favourite since the time of Edward the Confessor . |
| 12 | In England the chapel was fully manned in the time of Edward the Confessor ( though the title ‘ chancellor ’ is generally thought to have been instituted by the Normans ) . |
| 13 | The biographer of Edward the Confessor shows us ( in what is meant to be a panegyric ) the picture of a thoroughly idle king , who spent much of his time ‘ in the glades and woods in the pleasures of hunting ’ . |
| 14 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 15 | He was the son of Edward the Third , one of our more warlike kings , but he died the year before his father did , and that 's how we came to get the boy-king Richard the Second in thirteen seventy-seven . ’ |
| 16 | He , as well as Anne and Joan herself , was of Plantagenet stock , being a descendant of Edward the Third 's son Lionel , through the female line . |
| 17 | In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession . |