Welcome to Rex Factor.

This week, Edward the Martyr! With your host Graham,

with your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood.

Hello. Hello. Welcome to Rex Factor.

Where are we going to Ed with the Martyr? It's been two weeks.

It has, well for us it's been two weeks, for others it might be merely one week or

merely minutes if they just can't help themselves and listen to them all,

several in a row. Yeah, so we just did Edgar the peaceable who was the nearest we

found a erect factor since atlstan didn't quite make it but very interesting rain

oversaw a golden age of peace, security and infidelity of course, but died the island at 32 and as we'll see in this episode, it all falls apart quite quickly.

Is it because this guy I'm looking out on the card here hasn't got a

hope he looks like a someone who's won a competition in Blue Peter. He's really

just trying it on he's got on all these clothes. He's at David Carlson having a way over time but not kingly material and I don't think Graham explain yourself. Well, Edward the martyr, a clue to an extent is in the name in terms of his face.

He's the fifth of the sixth boy kings, but he is a, and again he's a proper boy king, so he's

born in 962 and he becomes king in 975 so he's only 13 when he becomes

keen so he's properly a boy king yeah so as we will see today's

question is how does the Golden Age so quickly descend into chaos and what does it mean for

Edward the master in terms of his reign so we're going to do this a little more like a history

essay rather than our previously probably doing the factors.

So the key issues are a disputed succession, the anti monastic reaction,

I'll explain all that is later, political factions.

Okay.

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