Alfred the Atheling

Holy Martyr Alfred the Atheling was the youngest of the eight sons of King Æthelred, born around 1012. He was the brother of Edward the Confessor; their mother was Emma of Normandy. After the Danish king Canute conquered England in 1016, Alfred and Edward returned to the court of their uncle, Duke Richard of Normandy.

In 1035, after Canute's death, Alfred landed on the Sussex coast with a Norman bodyguard and tried to reach London. He was betrayed, captured by Earl Godwin and blinded; he died at Ely in 1036. His death left much mistrust of Godwin in Anglo-⁠Saxon society. English Orthodox calendars remember him as a martyr, on 5 February in the old style (OrthodoxWiki).