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Edmund St

Edmund, St., was king of the East Angles in the middle of the 10th century. After many years of peaceful prosperity he was in 870 involved in a war with the Danes, who defeated him and made him prisoner. Upon his refusal to accept their terms of peace they beheaded him. Around his burial place a monastery and town grew up which still retains the name of Bury St. Edmunds.