Edmund I of the Midlands, Northumbria, and Strathclyde (the last of which was ceded to Malcolm I of Scotland). Edmund was assassinated after six-and-a-half years as king, while attending Mass in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. He was initially succeeded by his brother Eadred, but his two sons – Eadwig and Edgar the Peaceful – both later came to the throne. Edmund came to the throne as the son of Edward the Elder, and therefore the grandson of Alfred the Great, great-grandson of Æthelwulf of Wessex and great-great grandson of Egbert of Wessex, who was the first of the house of Wessex to start dominating
The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons caution, "The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons" was almost not shown because of concerns about inflaming pro-revolutionary passions. The public's insistence was too great, however, and the authorities were forced to give in. After its first exhibition, David's friend, the actor François-Joseph Talma, played the title role in Voltaire's "Brutus" and added in a scene in which the stage direction exactly replicated the composition of the already famous painting. Contemporaneously with David, the painter Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) was commissioned by Polish royalty to create a work she entitled "Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death for Treason".