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Also Known As Eadgar
Born 943 or 944
Died July 8, 975
Title / Office king (959-975), England
Notable Family Members father Edmund I • son Edward • son Ethelred the Unready • brother Eadwig

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Edgar, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library (Vesp. MS. A viii)
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Edmund I
Edmund I
king of England
Eadred, shown on a 10th-century silver penny; in the British Museum
Eadred
king of England
John Sheffield, 1st duke of Buckingham and Normanby
British statesman and author
Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel
Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of Arundel
English noble
Bayeux Tapestry; Odo leading his knights
Odo of Bayeux
Norman noble
Robert Sidney, 1st earl of Leicester, detail of a painting by an unknown artist, c. 1588; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Sidney, 1st earl of Leicester
British soldier and politician
Harold II
Harold II
king of England
Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Edward
king of England [1002?-1066]
Ethelred II, coin, 10th century; in the British Museum.
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
Athelstan
Athelstan
king of England
Edmund II
Edmund II
king of England
Eadwig
Eadwig
king of the English
Saint Edward the Martyr, silver penny, 10th century; in the British Museum
Edward
king of England [circa 963–978]
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine
queen consort of France and England
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Sidney Webb
British economist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
John Alden
English colonist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]

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