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Statue of Edward the Confessor
King Edward the Confessor (r. 1042-1066) was forced into exile in Normandy in 1013 when the Danes conquered England and returned as king almost three decades later when the Danish dynasty died out in 1042. His reign was largely dominated by the powerful Godwinson family, who provided his chief advisor, Harold Godwinson, and his wife, Queen Edith. Upon his death in 1066, several rival princes claimed the throne, leading to the Battle of Hastings, where the king’s cousin, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold Godwinson. Shortly after his death, a cult emerged around Edward’s tomb at Westminster Abbey. In 1161, Pope Alexander III canonised him as a saint and bestowed him with the epithet 'the Confessor.'
The statue of Edward is located outside St Edward's Hall at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America. It is a strange location for an Anglo-Saxon king, but is explained by the university’s founder, Edward Sorin (1814-1893), a French priest who claimed Edward as his patron saint. The statue was installed in 1883 by Froc-Robert & Sons, a religious statue manufacturer.
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