Edgar Ætheling King of England

1051 - 1125  (74 years)

• Name	Edgar Ætheling King of England  [1, 2]
  Born	1051	Hungary
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	15 Oct 1066
  	Briefly elected King of England by the English magnates of London (the Witan), following the death of Harold II at Hastings
  Occupation	10 Dec 1066
  	Witan members in London had Edgar surrender and submit to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted
  Military	1068
  	Defeated when he joined in the rebellion of the earls Edwin and Morcar against William, he fled to the court of Malcolm III of Scotland
  Military	1069
  	Captured York, but William marched on the north and paid the Danes to leave whilst Edgar fled to Scotland
  Military	1069
  	Combined his forces with Sweyn Estridson, the king of Denmark (nephew of Canute), and invaded England
  Occupation	1069
  	Edgar agreed to marry Malcolm's sister (Margaret)
  Occupation	1069
  	Malcolm married Edgar's sister Margaret, and agreed to support Edgar in his attempt to claim the English crown
  Occupation	1072
  	Remained in Scotland until William successfully enforced a peace treaty on Malcolm
  Occupation	1074
  	Made his peace with William
  Occupation	1091
  	Supported Robert, Duke of Normandy, against William II and again found himself seeking refuge in Scotland
  Military	1097
  	Crusader (First Crusade)
  Military	1098
  	Given a fleet at Constantinople by Emperor Alexius I and brought reinforcements at the Siege of Antioch
  Military	28 Sep 1106
  	Taken prisoner at the Battle of Tinchebray while fighting for Duke Robert (Curthouse) against Henry I
  Occupation	Possibly the son of Agatha (Agafia) of Bulgaria, daughter of Gavril Radomir (Tsar of Bulgaria) and Hercegnõ Magyarország
  Occupation	Possibly the son of Agathe de Kiev
  Occupation	Aft 1106
  	Returned to England where Henry pardoned him and he retired to his country estate in Hertfordshire
  Died	1125	Scotland
  Person ID	I4361	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Edward Ætheling of England,   b. 1016, Wessex, England ,   d. Feb 1057, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Agatha von Braunschweig,   b. Abt 1027, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Deutschland ,   d. 13 Jul 1068, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Married	Abt 1050
  Family ID	F1863	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret of Scotland,   b. Abt 1040, Carrick (Strathclyde), South Ayrshire, Scotland
  Married	1069	Dunfermline Abbey, Fifeshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Matilda of England,   b. Abt 1070, Scotland ,   d. 1144  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F4582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume VI, p. 641. [S751] Histoire de Normandie, Orderic Vital (traduction par Louis-François du Bois), (J.-L.-J. Brière, 68 rue Saint-André des Arts, Paris, 1825-1827), Volume 2, pp. 147-148.