Edmund

Edmund (d. 870), king of East Anglia, known as ‘the Martyr’. More famous in legend than in life, Edmund was killed by the Danes on 20 November 870. Stories quickly grew concerning his refusal to forswear Christianity, and his death (tied to a tree and shot to death by arrows). His burial place at Bury St Edmunds became a shrine, and the great abbey founded there helped to perpetuate his memory.