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The sordid deaths of Edmund Ironside, Edward II, Edward sat on the latrine, just going about his business, when an assassin stabbed him through the anus with a sword Edward II was reportedly murdered at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire in 1327, where he was held captive after relinquishing his crown. There, he was killed by having a red hot poker inserted into his anus. ‘His screams could be heard for miles around,’ wrote one chronicler. It makes for a great gruesome story, but several historians have since debunked it as mere myth, and a likely smearing of Edward II because of his homosexuality. King Edmund II (nicknamed Edmund Ironside) was king of England for just seven months in 1016. He raised an army to fend off invasions by the Danish invader Canute (aka Cnut the Great). However, after a siege in London, Edmund was finally defeated. At the Treaty of Alney, Canute allowed Edmund to retain lands in Wessex in return for a peace agreement. Not long after that, Edmund passed away. ...