Person:Eadwig Ætheling (1)
Eadwig Ætheling _____
b.Abt 990 Wessex, England
d.1017 England
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m. Est 985
  1. Eadgyth of NorthumbriaBef 983 - Aft 1021
  2. Æthelstan Ætheling _____Abt 986 - Aft 1014
  3. Egbert Ætheling _____Abt 987 - Bef 1007
  4. Edmund II "Ironside" _____, King of EnglandAbt 990 - 1016
  5. Eadred Ætheling _____Abt 990 - Bef 1014
  6. Eadwig Ætheling _____Abt 990 - 1017
  7. Edgar Aetheling the Elder _____Abt 994 -
  8. Wulfhild of NorthumbriaAbt 998 -
  9. Unknown _____, Daughter of ÆthelredAbt 1000 -
  10. Unknown _____Abt 1001 - Aft 1051
  11. Ælfgifu _____Abt 1005 - 1025
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Name Eadwig Ætheling _____
Alt Name Eadwig of England
Gender Male
Birth[3] Abt 990 Wessex, England
Death[1][2][3][4][5] 1017 England
Burial[2][3][6] Tavistock, Devon, England
Reference Number? Q3046321?


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Eadwig Ætheling (sometimes also known as Eadwy or Edwy) (died 1017) was the fifth of the six sons of King Æthelred the Unready and his first wife, Ælfgifu. Eadwig is recorded as a witness to charters from 993.

When Sweyn Forkbeard conquered England in 1013, Æthelred fled to Normandy, but Eadwig, who had previously rarely been associated with his elder brothers, Æthelstan and Edmund, remained behind with them in England. Sweyn died in February 1014, and Æthelred was restored to the throne. Æthelstan died in June 1014 and Æthelred in April 1016, leaving Edmund and Sweyn's son Cnut to dispute the throne. In October 1016 Cnut and Edmund agreed to divide England between them, but Edmund died a month later, leaving Cnut as undisputed king.

Eadwig, who was now the last surviving son by his father's first marriage, was banished in 1016 and then outlawed in 1017 by Cnut, however he was reconciled with Cnut the same year and allowed to live in England, but was murdered soon after at the instigation of Cnut, possibly after attempting to rally resistance in the south west. The Anglo-Saxon claim to the throne then passed to the elder son of Æthelred's second marriage, the future Edward the Confessor. Eadwig was buried at Tavistock Abbey a place built by his uncle Ordwulf.

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References
  1. ↑ Eadwig Ætheling, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Æthelred II "the Unready", in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 EADWIG, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  4. ↑ Earle, John (ed.), and Charles (ed.) Plummer. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892)
    1:154.

    MS D notes that Cnut banished Eadwig in 1017, while MS C (given as a footnote here) adds that Cnut afterwards had him killed.

  5. ↑ Thorpe, Benjamin. Florentii Wigorniensis. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1848)
    p. 181.
  6. ↑ William of Malmesbury, and Thomas Duffus Hardy (ed.). Gesta Regum Anglorum: atque Historia Novella. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1840)
    1:303.
  7.   Eadwig 11 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
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