"At a truce after Ethelred's death, Edmund and Cnut agreed to divide the kingdom between them, but Edmund died shortly after, and Cnut became king of the whole country (marrying Ethelred's widow)."
Edmund Ironsides was suposedly murdered by Eric Streon who hid in the King's new toilet and stabed him in the bottom with a sword.
Ouch! Yikes! I'd rather not think about that, thanks!
"Edmund Ironsides was suposedly murdered by Eric Streon who hid in the King's new toilet and stabed him in the bottom with a sword."
Streon appears in the (limited) chronicles as a complete opportunist, switching loyalties with little hesitation when it behooved him. Am I recalling correctly that Cnut did away with him? There is a passage somewhere about those who were faithful in service to aethelraed (during his interrupted reign) being generally left in place by cnut, but those that switched loyalties were not.