the ledger of connections
The Connections of Edmund Ironside
King of the English, Wessex dynasty Every person recorded alongside Edmund Ironside in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Edmund Ironside in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Æthelred the Unready, Ælfgifu of York
- Spouses
- Ealdgyth
- Children
- Edward the Exile, Edmund Ætheling
- Siblings
- Edward the Confessor, Goda of England, Æthelstan Ætheling, Eadwig Ætheling, Alfred Aetheling, Eadred Ætheling, Eadgyth
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 993 CE to 1016.

Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years

Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)

Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)

Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – September 25, 1072
Sufi mystic
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period

Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady

Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor

Medieval era
Anawrahta
May 11, 1014 – April 11, 1077
Founder of the Pagan Empire

Medieval era
Æthelred the Unready
967 CE – April 23, 1016
King of England