Susan Ridyard dismissed apocryphal claims that the half-sister of a monarch of this name foresaw his death after she dreamt she lost her right eye and was subsequently offered his throne; that half-sister was canonized as Saint Edith. A monarch of this name, who dissolved many monasteries in the “anti-monastic reaction,” may have been murdered by his mother-in-law, Ælfthryth (“ELF-thrith”). A future monarch of this name, who was exiled by Harold Harefoot, inherited the throne from Harthacnut after he returned with his mother Emma of Normandy. In addition to a monarch known as the “Martyr,” a monarch with this name commissioned the modern Westminster Abbey and ignited a succession crisis between Harold Godwinson and the future William the Conqueror after his death. For 10 points, a king of England of what name had the epithet “Confessor?” ■END■
ANSWER: Edward [accept Edward the Confessor or Edward the Martyr]
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