Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ( , ; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. The son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, Edward succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half brother – Harthacnut, restoring the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut (better known as Canute) conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066, he was
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects mascot. The segments also appeared during some NBC network rebroadcasts of "Underdog". The "Twinkles" segments were not included when "King Leonardo And His Short Subjects" was syndicated in a half-hour format during the 1980s. "King Leonardo and his Short Subjects" was part of NBC's Saturday-morning lineup until 1963. Each program followed "The Shari Lewis Show." The animation for the show's early segments was produced by TV Spots, with later episodes by Gamma Productions, the same Mexico-based studio that did much of the work for Jay Ward Productions. For this reason, and due to shared sponsorship by General Mills, Gamma has