in 946, King Edmund of England was stabbed to death by a thief in a brawl at Pucklechurch in Gloucester while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.. According to the post-Conquest chronicler, John of Worcester: whom he personally attacks
"While the glorious Edmund, king of the English, was at the royal township called Pucklechurch in English, in seeking to rescue his steward from Leofa, a most wicked thief, lest he be killed, was himself killed by the same man on the feast of St Augustine, teacher of the English, on Tuesday, 26 May, in the fourth indiction, having completed five years and seven months of his reign. He was borne to Glastonbury, and buried by the abbot, St Dunstan."
