Editing Edward the Martyr (section)

== Sources ==
The historian [[Levi Roach]] comments: "Little is known about Edward's reign save what can be gleaned from a few short notices in the ''Chronicle'' and the three authentic [[Anglo-Saxon charters|charters]] in his name."{{sfn|Roach|2016|p=68}} Other pre-[[Norman Conquest|Conquest]] sources include Charter S 937{{efn|A charter's S number is its number in [[Peter Sawyer (historian)|Peter Sawyer]]'s catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters, available online at the [https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/about/index.html Electronic Sawyer].}} of around 999, which gives details of his election as king,{{sfnm|1a1=Williams|1y=2003|1p=10|2a1=Charter S 937|3a1=Whitelock|3y=1979|3pp=582–584 (no. 123)}} [[Byrhtferth of Ramsey]]'s ''Life of St Oswald'', written around 1000,{{sfn|Lapidge|2009|pp=lxvii, 122–145}} and parts of some manuscripts of the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' (''ASC'').{{sfn|Whitelock|1979|pp=109–117, 228–231}} The ''Passio et Miracula Sancti Eadwardi Regis et Martyris'' (''[[Passion of Jesus|Passion]] and Miracles of Saint Edward, King and Martyr''), was written around 1100, probably by the [[hagiographer]] [[Goscelin]].{{efn|Fell and Ridyard think that the ''Passio'' was probably written by Goscelin, but Paul Hayward considers this "highly unlikely", arguing that "the work has little of the sweeping flair and distinctive vocabulary which characterises Goscelin's oeuvre".{{sfnm|1a1=Fell|1y=1971|1p=xx|2a1=Ridyard|2y=1988|2pp=48–49|3a1=Hayward|3y=1999|3pp=85–86 and n. 85}} }} Post-Conquest chroniclers giving accounts of Edward's reign include [[William of Malmesbury]] and [[John of Worcester]].{{sfnm|1a1=Fell|1y=1971|2a1=Mynors|2a2=Thomson|2a3=Winterbottom|2y=1998|2pp=260–269 (159.2-163)|3a1=Darlington|3a2=McGurk|3y=1995|3pp=416–417, 426–431}}