The southern parts were left to Edmond.

The prince survived the treaty about a month.
He was murdered at Oxford by two of his chamberlains, accomplices of Edric, who thereby made way for the succession of Canute the Dane to the crown of England.
CANUTE {1017.} The English, who had been unable to defend their country, and maintain their independency, under so active and brave a prince as Edmond, could after his death expect nothing but total subjection from Canute, who, active and brave himself, and at the head of a great force, was ready to take advantage of the minority of Edwin and Edward, the two sons of Edmond.

Yet this conqueror, who was commonly so little scrupulous, showed himself anxious to cover his injustice under plausible pretences.

Before he seized the dominions of the English princes, he summoned a general assembly of the states, in order to fix the succession of the kingdom.

He here suborned some nobles to depose that, in the treaty of Glocester it had been verbally agreed, either to name Canute, in case of Edmond's death, successor to his dominions, or tutor to hit children, (for historians vary in this particular;) and that evidence, supported by the great power of Canute, determined the states immediately to put the Danish monarch in possession of the government.