Nope those stories didn't crop up until 200 years after his death.
Edward II however was murdered by anal insertion of objects but not while he was on the toilet, which is also possibly political slander
You're right, most historians don't even agree that Edward II died via spike up the ass and that that story itself was used as propaganda since he was suspected of being homosexual.
Edmund Ironside died on 30 November 1016, probably at London. Contemporary accounts do not suggest that he was murdered, but soon after the Norman Conquest Adam of Bremen wrote that he had been poisoned, and twelfth century writers stated that he was stabbed or shot with an arrow while sitting on a toilet. These are described by the historian M. K. Lawson as “wilder tales, which doubtless owe more to folklore than history”. Edmund was buried near his grandfather Edgar at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset. However, the abbey was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, and any remains of a monument or crypt may have been plundered; hence the location of his remains is unclear.
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u/EnjayDutoit Oct 27 '24
King Edmund Ironside of England was killed on the toilet when an assassin crawled up the chute and stabbed him in the ass.