Edmund the Martyr
c. 841 AD — November 20, 869 AD
Edmund was a boy-king of East Anglia who, when Viking warlords demanded he renounce Christ or die, chose death. Tied to a tree at Hoxne, shot with arrows and beheaded on November 20, 869, he remained England's patron saint for six centuries — until Saint George replaced him in the 15th century.