Edgar, King Of England
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Kingdom Of England |
Died | Winchester |
United Kingdom | |
July 8 | |
975 AD | |
Winchester | |
United Kingdom | |
Grandchildren | Edward the Confessor |
Edmund Ironside | |
Children | Æthelred the Unready |
Edward the Martyr | |
Edmund Ætheling | |
Edith of Wilton | |
Great grandchild | Edward the Exile |
Ralph the Timid | |
Edmund Ætheling | |
Foulques d'Amiens | |
Adèle de Mantes | |
Harold (?) | |
Parents | Edmund I |
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury | |
Full name | Edgar I |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 3856388 |
Edgar, King Of England Life story
Edgar, known as the Peaceful or the Peaceable, 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.