Editing Edmund Ironside (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Abbey at Glastonbury - geograph.org.uk - 28946.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3|The ruins of [[Glastonbury Abbey]] in [[Somerset]], where Edmund was buried.]]

Edmund died on 30 November 1016, probably at London. Contemporary accounts do not suggest that he was murdered, but soon after the Norman Conquest [[Adam of Bremen]] wrote that he had been poisoned, and twelfth-century writers stated that he was stabbed or shot with an arrow while sitting on a toilet. These are described by the historian M. K. Lawson as "wilder tales, which doubtless owe more to folklore than history". Edmund was buried near his grandfather [[Edgar, King of England|Edgar]] at [[Glastonbury Abbey]] in [[Somerset]].{{sfn|Lawson|2004}} However, the abbey was destroyed during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in the 16th century, and any remains of a monument or crypt may have been plundered; hence the location of his remains is unclear.