Edgar (or Eadgar; c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was...
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Edgar Ætheling or Edgar II (c. 1052 – 1125 or after) was the last male member of the royal house of Cerdic of Wessex. He was elected King of England by...
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up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English...
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heir of the aged and son-less Donald. Edgar received limited support from William II of England as Duncan had before him; however, the English king was...
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Eadwig (redirect from Edwy of england)
Eadwig and Edgar were young children, their uncle Eadred became king. Like Edmund, Eadred inherited the kingship of the whole of England but soon lost...
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Æthelstan (redirect from King Aethelstan of England)
Wessex and England is headed 'Between Alfred the Great and Edgar the Peacemaker: Æthelstan, The First King of England', and the title of Sarah Foot's...
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James VI and I (redirect from King James I of England and VI of Scotland)
– 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English...
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Alfrida, Elfrida or Elfthryth) was Queen of the English from her marriage to King Edgar in 964 or 965 until Edgar's death in 975. She was a leading figure...
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King Edgar may refer to: Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England Edgar, King of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland Edgar Ætheling (c.1051–c.1126)...
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William II (Anglo-Norman: Williame; c. 1057 – 2 August 1100) was King of England from 26 September 1087 until his death in 1100, with powers over Normandy...
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"At the close of Shakespeare's revised King Lear, a reluctant Edgar becomes King of Britain, accepting his destiny but in the accents of despair. Nuttall...
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William the Conqueror (redirect from King William I of England)
was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II)...
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Eadred (redirect from Edred of england)
and Edgar, were then young children, so Eadred became king. He suffered from ill health in the last years of his life and he died at the age of a little...
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known as Wilfrida (died c. 1000), was the second known consort of Edgar, King of England in the early 960s. Historians disagree whether she was his wife...
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Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154. He was Count of Boulogne jure uxoris from 1125 until 1147 and Duke of Normandy...
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Æthelred the Unready (redirect from Aethelred II of England)
was the son of King Edgar the Peaceful and Queen Ælfthryth. He came to the throne at about the age of 12, following the assassination of his older half-brother...
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Cnut (redirect from Knútr Sveinnsson, King of England)
Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035....
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Edward the Martyr (redirect from King Edward the Martyr)
962–978) was King of the English from 8 July 975 until he was killed on 18 March 978. He was the eldest son of King Edgar (r. 959–975). On Edgar's death, the...
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Edmund I (redirect from Edmund i of england)
half of England and his wife fostered the future King Edgar. The historian Cyril Hart compares the brothers' power during Edmund's reign to that of the...
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1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated...
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was the king of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France...
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Edmund Ironside (redirect from Edmund II of England)
exile to England in 1057 only to die within a few days of his arrival. His son Edgar Ætheling was briefly proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings...
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Alfred the Great (redirect from Alfred King of England)
899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf...
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S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II...
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Ely Abbey (category Benedictine nunneries in England)
in 870, but Edgar, King of England re-established the monastery in 970 as part of the English Benedictine Reform. The precise siting of Æthelthryth's...
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Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême...
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Harold Godwinson (redirect from King Harold II of England)
sister of King Cnut the Great of England and Denmark. Ulf and Estrid's son would become King Sweyn II of Denmark in 1047. Godwin was the son of Wulfnoth...
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Edith of Wilton (c. 961 – c. 984) was an English saint, nun and member of the community at Wilton Abbey, and the daughter of Edgar, King of England (r....
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Edmund of Scotland Ethelred, abbot of Dunkeld King Edgar of Scotland King Alexander I of Scotland Matilda of Scotland, married Henry I of England Mary of Scotland...
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