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Edgar King of England

Male 943 - 975  (32 years)


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  • Name Edgar King of England  [1, 2, 3
    Born 943  Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 944 
    Raised following the death of his mother, in the household of Æthelstan Half-King, ealdorman of East Anglia 
    Occupation 957 
    King of Mercia and Northumbria (succeeded his uncle Eadred) 
    Occupation 1 Oct 959 
    King of England (succeeded his brother Edwyg) 
    Occupation 968 
    Appeared in the will of Ælfheah, ealdorman, which read, in part, "... Aylesbury and Wendover, Bucks., to King Edgar" 
    Occupation 969 
    Ordered the destruction of Thanet to punish its inhabitants for their maltreatment of merchants from York 
    Occupation 973 
    Ceded Lothian to the King of the Scots, defining the Anglo-Saxon boundary that exists to this day 
    Occupation 11 May 973 
    Crowned at Bath Abbey 
    Died 8 Jul 975  Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4064  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Edmund I King of England,   b. 921, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 946, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years) 
    Mother Ælfgifu of England,   b. Abt 922, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 944, Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 22 years) 
    Married Abt 940 
    Family ID F2061  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Æthelflæd Eneda of Hertford,   b. Abt 941, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 962, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 21 years) 
    Married 961  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Edward II the Martyr King of England,   b. 962, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 978, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 16 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2059  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Ealfthryth of Devonshire Queen of England,   b. 945, Lydford Castle, Devon, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1002, Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 965  Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Æthelred II King of England,   b. 968, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1016, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2058  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S629] Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Herausgegeben Von Detlev Schwennicke, (Verlag Von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Deutschland, éditions 1978 à 1993), Volume 2, p. 78.

    2. [S639] Domesday Descendants. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum, Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2002), 1102.

    3. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 2:1-18.