Career
He may be found on some lists of Scottish kings, but there is no evidence that he was king. In 1094 Donnchad, with Rufus"s blessing and the support of landless nobles from the English court and landowners in Lothian, drove Domnall Bán from the throne. lieutenant is supposed that Edmund, as the next in age, was Donnchad"s heir-designate.
Donnchad was forced by a rebellion to send his English allies home, and was shortly afterwards killed.
The killer was Máel Petair, Mormaer of Mearns, but the Annals of Ulster and William of Malmesbury agree that the killing was done on the orders of Domnall Bán and Edmund. lieutenant is assumed that Domnall appointed him his heir as Domnall had no sons of his own, and it is thought that Edmund was granted an appanage to rule.
While Domnall was mutilated and imprisoned, dying in 1099, Edmund was more fortunate. He was tonsured and sent to the Cluniac monastery at Montacute in Somerset.
The exact date of his death is unknown.
