³⁴ Parsons explains: ‘The second wife of Etheldred was called Emma, sister to Richard Duke of Normandie, who was grand father to William the conqueror, to witt, father to Duke Robert, that was father to William, so as Emma was great aunt to this William, and she bare unto king Etheldred two sonnes, the first Edward, who was afterward named king Edward the Confessor, and Alerud who was slayne traiterously by the Earle of kent, as presently we shal shew’ (A Conference, part 1, 184).