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... Eadwig and Ælfgifu . 955 956 957 . 958 Eadwig dies ; Edgar chosen King ; Dunstan Archbishop 959 Edgar at York • Edgar subdues Idwal's revolt 961 • 963 Edgar marries Ælfthryth 964 Westmorland harried . 966 Thanet harried ; Æthelred born ...
... Eadwig and Ælfgifu . 955 956 957 . 958 Eadwig dies ; Edgar chosen King ; Dunstan Archbishop 959 Edgar at York • Edgar subdues Idwal's revolt 961 • 963 Edgar marries Ælfthryth 964 Westmorland harried . 966 Thanet harried ; Æthelred born ...
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... Eadwig ( whose name is often written Edwy1 ) and Edgar , but they were quite young children , so the Wise Men chose Eadred , brother of Edmund , to be King . He must have been a young man himself , as his elder brother Edmund was only ...
... Eadwig ( whose name is often written Edwy1 ) and Edgar , but they were quite young children , so the Wise Men chose Eadred , brother of Edmund , to be King . He must have been a young man himself , as his elder brother Edmund was only ...
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... EADWIG . 955-959 . The Wise Men now chose Eadwig or Edwy , the eldest son of King Edmund . He was still very young , but there was no one else left in the royal family , and he seems to have been chosen without difficulty and to have ...
... EADWIG . 955-959 . The Wise Men now chose Eadwig or Edwy , the eldest son of King Edmund . He was still very young , but there was no one else left in the royal family , and he seems to have been chosen without difficulty and to have ...
Page 170
... Eadwig's wife at all , a way of speaking which has led to great confusion in the history . It is said that on the day of Eadwig's hallowing as King , when , as usual , there was a great feast made to his Aldermen and his Bishops and all ...
... Eadwig's wife at all , a way of speaking which has led to great confusion in the history . It is said that on the day of Eadwig's hallowing as King , when , as usual , there was a great feast made to his Aldermen and his Bishops and all ...
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... Eadwig himself was killed , but I find nothing about that either in any early writer . I can only say that Eadwig , King of the West - Saxons , as he is now called , died in 959 and was buried in the New Minster at Winchester . § 5. THE ...
... Eadwig himself was killed , but I find nothing about that either in any early writer . I can only say that Eadwig , King of the West - Saxons , as he is now called , died in 959 and was buried in the New Minster at Winchester . § 5. THE ...
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