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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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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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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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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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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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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