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Edmund

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Gender
  
Masculine

Language(s)
  
Old English

Variant form(s)
  
Eadmund

Language(s)
  
English

Derivation
  
ēad + mund

Meaning
  
"prosperity", "riches" + "protector"

Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ēad, meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and mund, meaning "protector".

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Persons named Edmund include:

Nobility

  • Edmund the Martyr (died 869 or 870), king of East Anglia
  • Edmund I (922–946), King of England from 939 to 946
  • Edmund Ironside (989–1016), also known as Edmund II, King of England in 1016
  • Edmund of Scotland (after 1070 – after 1097)
  • Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne
  • Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), English earl
  • Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England
  • Sir Edmund Cornwall, KB (1483)

    • In religion

  • Saint Edmund (disambiguation), religious title given to several persons
  • Eadmund of Winchester (died between 833 and 838), once thought to have been a Bishop of Winchester
  • Edmund of Durham (died 1041), Bishop of Durham
  • Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Jesuit, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
  • Edmund Campion (1540–1581), English Jesuit priest and martyr
  • Edmund Gennings (1567–1591), English priest and martyr
  • Edmund Kalau (1928–2014), German missionary and minister
  • Edmund Rich (1175–1240), also called Edmund of Abingdon; Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers

    • In politics

  • Edmund Burke (1729–1797), Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
  • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (born 1938), commonly known as Jerry Brown; governor of California
  • Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), American Secretary of State
  • Edmund Stoiber (born 1941), German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria

    • In other fields

  • Edmund Anscombe (1874–1948), New Zealand architect
  • Edmund Crispin, pseudonym of English crime fiction writer Bruce Montgomery (1921–1978)
  • Edmund Davy (1785–1857), English chemist
  • Edmund Fritz (before 1918 – after 1932), Austrian actor, film director, and music manager
  • Edmund H. Garrett (1853–1929), American artist
  • Edmund Gettier (born 1927), American philosopher
  • Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director
  • Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician
  • Sir Edmund Hillary (1919–2008), New Zealand mountaineer
  • Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher and mathematician
  • Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sir William Edmund Ironside (1880–1951), field marshal and chief of the British Imperial General Staff
  • Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside (born 1924), British politician and engineer, son of William Edmund Ironside
  • Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), Irish author and storyteller
  • Edmund P. Murray (1930–2007), American novelist and journalist
  • Edmund Reid (1846–1917), head of the Metropolitan Police's CID during the time of the Jack the Ripper
  • Ed Skoronski (1910–1996), American football player
  • Edmund Sonnenblick, American cardiologist
  • Edmund Spenser (1552–1599), English poet

    • Fictional characters

  • Edmund (King Lear), an antagonist in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • Edmund Bertram, character in the novel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Edmund Blackadder, the protagonist of the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder
  • Edmund Pevensie, character in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
  • Edmund Tyrone, character in the drama Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
  • Edmund Hewlett, character in AMC's Turn: Washington's Spies

    • References

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