Editing Edmund the Martyr (section)

=== Cult at Toulouse ===
In 1664, a lawyer from the French city of [[Toulouse]] publicized a claim that Edmund's remains had been taken from Bury by the future [[Louis VIII of France]] following his defeat at the [[Battle of Lincoln (1217)|Battle of Lincoln]] in 1217.{{sfn|Young|2018|p=12{{ndash}}13}} The relics had then been donated by Louis to the [[Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse|Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse]].{{sfn|Gem|2020}} The first record of this is a relic list for Saint-Sernin of around 1425, which included St Edmund among the church's relics.{{sfn|Gem|2020}} 

In 1644, after the city was saved from the [[Plague (disease)|plague]] from 1628 to 1631, which the population ascribed to the intercession of a saint known to the church authorities as ''Aymundus'', who they decided was Edmund. In gratitude for its deliverance, the city vowed to build a new [[reliquary]] for the saint's remains. Edmund's cult flourished there for over two centuries.{{sfn|Young|2018|p=133}} The reliquary, designed by [[Jean Chalette]], was silver and adorned with solid silver statues.{{sfn|Julien|1996}} In 1644, the relics were verified and catalogued for interment in the newly-completed shrine, by which time the cult's origins had been forgotten.{{sfn|Young|2018|pp=133{{ndash}}134}} Edmund's shrine was removed in 1794 during the [[French Revolution]]. The saint's relics were restored to the Basilica of Saint-Sernin in 1845 and placed in a new reliquary.{{sfn|Young|2018|pp=135{{ndash}}136}}