Person:Edgar the Peaceful (1)
Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England I
b.Abt 7 Aug 943
d.8 Jul 975 Winchester, Hampshire, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 940
  1. Eadwig of EnglandAbt 940 - 959
  2. Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England IAbt 943 - 975
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England IAbt 943 - 975
  • W.  Æthelflæd _____
m. Abt 963
  1. Edward "the Martyr" _____Abt 963 - 978
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England IAbt 943 - 975
  • W.  Ælfthryth _____Abt 945 - Bet 999 & 1002
m. 965
  1. Eadmund _____Abt 966 - 971
  2. Æthelred II "the Unready" _____, de WessexAbt 968 - 1016
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England IAbt 943 - 975
  • W.  Wulfthryth _____ - Abt 1000
m.
  1. Edith of Wilton961 - 984
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Facts and Events
Name Edgar the Peaceful _____, King of Wessex, Mercia & England I
Alt Name Ēadgār _____
Gender Male
Birth[1][12][13][15][16] Abt 7 Aug 943 House of Wessex
Title (nobility)[1] From 1 Oct 959 to 8 Jul 975 King of England
Marriage Cohabitation?
to Wulfthryth _____
Marriage Abt 963 to Æthelflæd _____
Marriage 965 to Ælfthryth _____
Death[1][11][17] 8 Jul 975 Winchester, Hampshire, England
Burial[1][17] Glastonbury, Somerset, EnglandGlastonbury Abbey
Reference Number[1] Q192925?


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Edgar ( ; 8 July 975), known as the Peaceful or the Peaceable,[1] was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. The younger son of King Edmund I and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, he came to the throne as a teenager following the death of his older brother, King Eadwig.[1] As king, Edgar further consolidated the political unity achieved by his predecessors, with his reign being noted for its relative stability. His most trusted advisor was Dunstan, whom he recalled from exile and made Archbishop of Canterbury. The pinnacle of Edgar's reign was his coronation at Bath in 973, which was organised by Dunstan and forms the basis for the current coronation ceremony. After his death he was succeeded by his son Edward, although the succession was disputed.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Edgar the Peaceful, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    Wikipedia gives no citation for the birth date.

  2.   Searle, William George. Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings and nobles, the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. (Cambridge: University Press in Cambridge, 1899)
    pp. 346-347.
  3.   The Royal Line of Sucession, A16A225, p. 7.
  4.   Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, Eng. 36, v. 2, p. 222-30, 260-77.
  5.   Plantagenet Ancestry, Eng. 116, p. 21.
  6.   Burke's Peerage, Eng. p, 1949, preface p. 251.
  7.   George's Gen. Tab., Eng. 102, Tab. 1.
  8.   Keiser und Koenig Hist., Gen. Hist. 25, pt 1, p. 96-97.
  9.   Anderson's Royal Gen., eng. 132, p. 740.
  10.   Betham's Tab., Eng. 133, Tab. 601, 602.
  11. ↑ Eadgar 'the Peaceful', King of England, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  12. ↑ EDGAR, son of EDMUND King of Wessex & his first wife Ælfgifu --- ([943]-Winchester 8 Jul 975, bur Glastonbury Abbey), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  13. ↑ Eadgar, in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.
  14.   Edgar 11 (Male), in The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
  15. ↑ Thorpe, Benjamin. Florentii Wigorniensis. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1848)
    p. 133.

    Has Eadgar's birth under the year 943.

  16. ↑ Thorpe, Benjamin. Florentii Wigorniensis. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1848)
    pp. 274-275.

    States that Eadgar was in his 16th year when he succeeded in 959, and in his 32nd year at his decease in 975.

  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Thorpe, Benjamin. Florentii Wigorniensis. (London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1848)
    p. 143.
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