That's interesting, I always assumed Eduourd was named for 'let's appease the Anglo-Saxons' reasons, not for pious ones. Of course, it's all pretty pedantic, g

That's interesting, I always assumed Eduourd was named for 'let's appease the Anglo-Saxons' reasons, not for pious ones. Of course, it's all pretty pedantic, given we are talking about names in Old English and Old French, and an Old French name is as removed from a modern French one as it is from an Old English one, so naming these figures with their modern equivalents for the modern reader makes sense too. I just like reminding myself these early English monarchs were not, in fact, English, and would not be, and would not consider themselves as such, for a while. It also emphasizes how much of a relatively unimportant adjunct of their French lands the Angevins considered England.