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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 the Witan in 1066 but never crowned.
Edgar The Aetheling was an Anglo-Saxon prince, who, at the age of about 15, was proposed as king of England after the death of Harold II in the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 14, 1066) but instead served the first two Norman kings, William I, Harold’s conqueror, and William II.
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Jun 28, 2017 · Edgar Atheling was the last of the line of Cerdic and a claimant to the English throne after Harold's death. He submitted to William I and became his advisor and ally.
Edgar the Aethling (or Edgar Ætheling) c. 1052 – 1125 or after,) was a claimant to the throne of England in 1066 after Edward the Confessor died. Edgar was a popular choice among the English , because he was English and a grandson of Edmund Ironside .
assemble the evidence for the life of Edgar and to treat him not as a footnote to history, which is how he has often fared at the hands of historians, but as a character of no small importance in the history of the Norman Conquest of England. BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST Edgar was not born in England. He was the son of Edward the Exile, who left
Edgar was the last surviving male of the ancient Royal House of Wessex, who claimed the English throne after the Norman Conquest. He lived a turbulent life of exile, rebellion, and diplomacy, and died in 1126.
Sep 26, 2008 · The resistance of the English nobility to the Norman Conquest made a large contribution to its own eclipse, but it is rarely that we are afforded a glimpse of the fortunes of an individual. The historian may, however, dwell in some detail on the career of one man, Edgar the Ætheling.
