49th Generation (Continued)
Family of Edmund I "The Magnificent" King Of England (390) & Elgiva Queen Of England

408. Edgar the Peaceful King of England, 32G Grandfather, M. Born in 0943 in Wessex, England. Edgar the Peaceful King of died in Wessex, England on 8 Jul 0975, he was 32. Buried in Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.

Edgar (reigned 959-75), king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edwy's death in 959 - a death which probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers. Ed gar was a firm and capable ruler, whose power was acknowledged by other ruler s in Britain, as well as Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryt h was the first consort to be crowned queen of England. Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbish op Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reforme d and old monastic sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which wer e of land recovered from the Vikings. In the 970s and in the absence of Viki ng attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time deal t with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united ki ngdom based on royal justice and order was emerging; the Monastic Agreement ( c. 970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious ki ng of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britain'. After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was
buried at Glas tonbury Abbey, Somerset.







In 0965 when Edgar the Peaceful King of was 22, he married Aelfthryth\Elfrida of Devon, 32G Grandmother, F, daughter of Ordgar Earl of Devon, M (abt 0920-). Born in 0945 in Devonshire, England. Aelfthryth\Elfrida of died in 1000, she was 55.

They had one child:
423 i. AEthelred II the Unready King of, M (~0968-1016)

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