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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Æthelred the Unready (redirect from Edgar Aetheling the Elder)
are: Æthelstan Ætheling (died 1014); Ecgberht Ætheling (died c. 1005); Edmund Ironside (King of England, died 1016); Eadred Ætheling (died before 1013);...
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Ætheling (/ˈæθəlɪŋ/; also spelt aetheling, atheling or etheling) was an Old English term (æþeling) used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of...
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until 1097 that Edgar received further support which led to the defeat of Donald and Edmund in a hard-fought campaign led by Edgar Ætheling. Although Geoffrey...
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Edward the Exile (redirect from Edward Ætheling)
Edward the Exile (1016 – 19 April 1057), also called Edward Ætheling, was the son of King Edmund Ironside and of Ealdgyth. He spent most of his life in...
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movement, which became dominant during Edgar's reign, and the historian Robin Fleming comments that Edgar ætheling (prince eligible for the throne) was...
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the Normans under William the Conqueror. Edward's young great-nephew Edgar Ætheling of the House of Wessex was proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings...
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subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish...
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of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her...
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Hereford Edgar of Lindsey, (died between 716 and 731), Bishop of Lindsey Eadgar of London (died between 789 and 793), Bishop of London Edgar Ætheling (c. 1052...
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Exeter. Æthelred and Emma had two sons, Edward the Confessor and Alfred Ætheling, and a daughter, Goda of England (or Godgifu). When King Sweyn Forkbeard...
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Battle of Hastings, the Witan elected Edgar Ætheling as king, but by then the Normans controlled the country and Edgar never ruled. He submitted to King William...
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Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling — was unlikely to be missed...
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Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha, was the sister of Edgar Ætheling and Saint Margaret of Scotland, born in the 1040s. Cristina's nieces...
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intentionally vague. This was in preference to Edward's great-nephew, Edgar the Ætheling, who had yet to reach maturity. Who also claimed the English crown...
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of English noblemen whom he considered suspect. Æthelred's son Eadwig Ætheling fled from England but was killed on Cnut's orders. Edmund Ironside's sons...
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(Latin: Childebertus Adoptivus) "~ (the) Ætheling": Edgar Ætheling of England (Old English: Eadgar Æþeling) "~ the Affable": Charles VIII of France (French:...
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Ætheling means "prince of the royal house" and usually denoted a son or brother of a ruling king. Edgar the Ætheling was another claimant, but Edgar was...
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with Malcolm's sons by Margaret inside. Fordun has Margaret's brother Edgar Ætheling take his nephews to England to keep them safe. Andrew of Wyntoun's much...
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Edward the Exile, a candidate for the throne of England, and mother of Edgar Ætheling, Saint Margaret of Scotland and Cristina. Her antecedents are unclear...
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view: "The emergence of Ælfgifu, descendant of the ætheling Æthelwold, did not just threaten Edgar's position, it represented a revanche to a line and...
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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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of York, nominated Edgar Ætheling to be king, and this was supported by the leaders of London and the earls Morcar and Edwin. Edgar was never crowned,...
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His son Edgar Ætheling was briefly proclaimed king after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but later submitted to William the Conqueror. Edgar lived a long...
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sanctuary in Scotland at the court of Malcolm III. One of them was Edgar Ætheling, a member of the House of Wessex who was the last English claimant to...
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submission of the surviving English leaders after his victory, but instead Edgar the Ætheling was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot, with the support of Earls...
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(1069–1070) – An uprising which started 4 years after the Norman Conquest. Edgar Ætheling, the grandson of Edmund Ironside and the last notable heir to the House...
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Confessor (to 5 January 1066), Harold II (5 January to 14 October 1066), Edgar Ætheling (14 October to 10 December 1066), then William I 1060 Dedication of...
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evidence that the male line of the Cerdicings continued beyond Edgar Ætheling. Edgar's niece Matilda of Scotland later married William's son Henry I to...
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receive the submission of the surviving English leaders, but instead Edgar the Ætheling was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot, with the support of Earls...
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