Edward I King of ENGLAND, THE ELDER

                   Edward (The Elder) (c.870-924), king of the Angles and Saxons, was the son
of Alfred the Great.  He succeeeded his father on the throne in 899, after
having shown himself to be an able defender against the Danes.  On his
accession Edward continued his wars with the Danish invaders, some of whom
were supported by his cousin Ehelwold, who desired the throne.  After making
peace with the East Anglian Danes in 905 and triumphing over the Danish
occupants of Staffordshire in 909 & 910.  Edward took over the Mercian lands
of Misslesex and Oxfordshire from his sister Ethefleda, and steadily annexed
territory in eastern England until he achieved the complete submission of the
East Anglian Danes.  On Ethelfreda's death, Mercia come under Edward's rule,
and finally in 919 or 921, he received the homage of the Scottish King, the
Norwegian King of Northumbria, the Northumbrian inhabitants, and the Strath-
clyde Welsh.  Edward made a great contibution towards the unification of
England, which his sone Ethelstan, continued.  Edward the Elder died in 924
and was buried at Winchester.   He ruled from 899-924.
ordinances from the 1992 IGI