Edgar The Peaceful
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Gender | Male |
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Born | Wessex |
Died | Winchester |
United Kingdom | |
Full name | Edgar I |
Parents | Edmund I |
Malcolm III of Scotland | |
Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury | |
Spouse | Wulthryth |
Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar | |
Children | Æthelred the Unready |
Edward the Martyr | |
Edith of Wilton | |
Job | Politician |
Nickname | the Peaceable |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 402205 |
Edgar The Peaceful 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.