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Há 5 dias · Edgar Atheling. Edgar Atheling was Edward the Confessor‘s great-nephew and the closest blood relative to the late king. Strengths: Direct blood tie to the English royal family; Support from some English nobles who viewed him as the legitimate heir; Potential to unite English and Danish claims (his sisters were married to German and ...
Há 1 dia · After the battle of Hastings, Edwin and Morcar, earls of Northumberland and Mercia, being arrived at London from the fatal field, with the remnants of the army, proposed to the citizens the setting up of Edgar Atheling, grandson of Edmond Ironside, for king, as the most effectual measure to extricate themselves and nation from their ...
Há 6 dias · Edgar (or Eadgar; c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu.
Há 4 dias · In 1086 Christine, sister of Edgar Atheling, took the veil at Romsey, as stated in the Saxon chronicle, and became abbess. To the same retreat Christine was followed by her young niece Maud, but she did not take the vows, and became the Queen of Henry I., being married at Martinmas, 1100.
Há 6 dias · We learn from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that after the battle of Hastings and the death of Harold, Archbishop Aldred and the people of London chose Edgar Atheling as their king, so William marched from Hastings, crossing the Thames at Wallingford, laying the country waste as he went, till he came to Berkhampstead.
The writer points it out that it is unlikely to be Edgar because he would be over 90 at that point. But Atheling is a unique title that not just anyone would have, especially in Norman England. So the author said it was either a very old Edgar or a son/grandson/great-grandson named after him and keeping the title.
22 de mai. de 2024 · Edmund II (born c. 993—died Nov. 30, 1016) was the king of the English from April 23 to Nov. 30, 1016, surnamed “Ironside” for his staunch resistance to a massive invasion led by the Danish king Canute.
