EDGAR ATHELING

ăthˈəlĭng [O.E. ætheling,=son of the king], 1060?–1125?, English prince, grandson of Edmund Ironside. After the death of King Harold at the battle of Hastings in 1066, Edgar was chosen king, but he submitted to William I in the same year. In 1068 he fled to the Scottish king Malcolm III, who soon married Edgar's sister St. Margaret of Scotland. Edgar took part in the unsuccessful Northumbrian uprising (1069) in which the Danes also joined. After Malcolm made his peace with William in 1072, the Atheling probably lived in Flanders until he himself came to terms with William in 1074 and settled in France. After William's death Edgar joined Malcolm in raiding England in 1091, but after that he seems to have been at peace with William II of England. He led the English expedition that in 1097 dethroned Donald III and seated the Atheling's nephew Edgar (d. 1107) on the throne of Scotland. The Atheling went on the crusade of 1099 with Robert II, duke of Normandy, and later fought for Robert against Henry I of England. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Tinchebrai (1106) but was released.

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books on: Edgar Atheling  - 77 results

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Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book by Richard A. Lupoff; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Adventure Stories, American--History And Criticism, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography, Burroughs, Edgar Rice--1875-1950, Fantasy Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Tarzan (Fictitious Character)
...D. Appleton and Company, i 894. Atamian, Sarkis. The Origin of7a17,an. Anchorage: Publication Consultants, 1997- Atheling, William, Jr. Qames Blish The Isstse at Hand; Studies in Contempo- rary Magazine Science Fiction. Chicago: Advent Publishers...
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The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis - Vol. 2
Book by Marjorie Chibnall, Orderic Vitalis; Clarendon Press, 1969
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources, Crusades--Sources, Great Britain--History--To 1485--Sources, Middle Ages--Sources, Normandy (France)--History--To 1515--Sources, Normans--Sources
...112 ; town of, 148 ; see Arnold of. Edgar, king of England 957-75 , xxix; 242 ; 244 ; 342 . Edgar Atheling, son of Edward Atheling, 180 , 182...240 , 340 . Edward Atheling, father of Edgar, 180 ; not king of Hungary, 180 n...
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England under the Normans and Angevins, 1066-1272
Book by H. W. C. Davis; Methuen, 1905
Subjects: Great Britain--Medieval Period, 1066-1485
...upon the expulsion of the harmless Edgar Atheling who had lived, since the Conquerors...companion of Duke Robert. The Atheling, in his distress, sought a refuge...restoration of twelve English manors which Edgar the Peaceful had granted to the...
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St Margaret Queen of Scotland
Book by Alan J. Wilson; John Donald, 2001
Subjects: Christian Women Saints--Scotland--Edinburgh, Margaret--Queen, Consort Of Malcolm Iii, King Of Scotland--Ca. 1045-1093
...was the time to press the claim of Edgar Atheling. Immediately after Harolds death...districts. In one voice they chose Edgar as their king. He was the legitimate...the royal house of Cerdic. However Edgar was both young and weak. Much of...
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The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster
Book by Frank Barlow; Clarendon Press, 1992
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Edward--King Of England--Ca. 1003-1066, Great Britain--History--Edward, The Confessor, 1042-1066
...conqueror by an Englishman, possibly Edgar Atheling. 38 It is true that in 1068-71...Danish and other incursions, and that Edgar, supported by Anglo-Scots, may...totally ignored by the Vita . 41 Edgar Atheling was certainly the only direct...
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Court and Piety in Late Anglo-saxon England
Journal article by Mary Frances Smith, Robin Fleming, Patricia Halpin; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 87, 2001
Subjects: Catholicism, England, Middle Ages, Nobility, Nonfiction, Roman Catholic Church
...and secular objects, including the drinking horn that the Atheling Athelstan had once purchased there and subsequently bequeathed...ealdormen and their families.53 Yet, it is the ealdormen under Edgar the Peaceable and .Ethelred the Unready who are remembered...


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magazine articles on: Edgar Atheling  - 4 results

 
 
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January's Anniversaries
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 57, January 2007
Subjects: Anniversaries--Forecasts and trends, January
...Rufus saw an opportunity and in 1095, when Edgar would have been in his late teens, he was...army under his English uncle and namesake, Edgar Atheling, restored him to Scotland in 1097. Edgar, who was described by a chronicler as a sweet...
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Kings and Queens of Scots
Magazine article by Alexander S. Waugh; History Today, Vol. 59, October 2009
...to Edmund Ironside, who was briefly King of England in 1016, were his descendants. Thus when Edmunds grandson, Edgar Atheling died in c. 1125, the de jure English succession passed to his nephew David I, King of Scots (a great-grandson...
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God and the Normans: David Crouch Reconsiders William I and His Sons as Men of Genuine Piety-As Well as Soldiers
Magazine article by David Crouch; History Today, Vol. 52, October 2002
Subjects: Normans, William I, King of England--Family, William I, King of England--Religious aspects
...exile in the style befitting the sons of a duke. Political opponents like Guy of Burgundy, Earl Roger of Hereford, Edgar Atheling, Earl Morcar, Bishop Odo of Bayeux and Earl Ralph of East Anglia were exiled or kept under house arrest. The execution...
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Edinburgh: The Visually Spectacular Scottish Capital Witnessed Fierce Dynastic Struggle before It Welcomed the Spirit of the Enlightenment, as Patricia Cleveland-Peck Discovers
Magazine article by Patricia Cleveland-Peck; History Today, Vol. 59, January 2009
Subjects: Edinburgh, Scotland--History, Political violence--History, Royalty--History
...c. 1045), where her father Edward Atheling had been sent as an infant to live under...his three children--his weakling heir Edgar, Margaret, aged ten, and her sister...Haralds death at the Battle of Hastings gave Edgar a sliver of opportunity, but with the...


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Royal Families
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), February 22, 2007
...the great-niece of King Edward the Confessor of England. She had sought refuge in Scotland with her brother, Edgar the Atheling, who was the Anglo-Saxon heir to the English throne when William I or William the Conqueror excluded him from...
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50 for Fun
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 1, 2007
...Quixote and The Tenth Man were 1980s novels from which writer? 44In which year was hapless Hungarianborn teenager Edgar the Atheling proclaimed - but not crowned - King of England? 45Channel Fours highest-ever audience, of just under 14 million...
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The Great Pretender; Search for 'Lost Royals' Turns Up Albert, 70, a Distant Cousin of Prince Charles
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 9, 2007
...also related to Edward the Confessor and Edgar the Aetheling, passed over for the throne...Edward = Edgiva 17. Edmund I = Elgiva 18. Edgar = Elfrida 19. Ethelred II The Unready...Edmund II Ironside = Ealdgyth 21. Edward Atheling the Exile = Agatha 22. St. Margaret...


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encyclopedia articles on: Edgar Atheling  - 7 results

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Edgar Atheling
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Margaret of Scotland. Edgar took part in the unsuccessful...William in 1072, the Atheling probably lived in Flanders...After Williams death Edgar joined Malcolm in raiding...Donald III and seated the Athelings nephew Edgar (d. 1107) on the throne of Scotland. The Atheling went on the crusade...
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Henry I , King of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and niece of Edgar Atheling , gained him some popularity with his English (as opposed...war with Henry. Henrys only legitimate son, William Atheling, was drowned (1120), and Henry Is second marriage...
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Malcolm III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...his fathers kingdom. About 1068, Edgar Atheling , pretender to the English throne...Scotland, Saint ). On behalf of Edgar, Malcolm invaded N England, but...him. In the reign of William II , Edgar joined Malcolm in his raid into England...
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William II , King of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ineffective, but in that year William gained control of the Scottish throne by sanctioning the successful expedition of Edgar Atheling to dethrone Malcolm IIIs son Donald Bane. In the meantime Robert, who needed money to go on the First Crusade...
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William I , King of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...redistributed on a strictly feudal basis (see feudalism ), to the kings Norman followers. By 1072 the adherents of Edgar Atheling and their Scottish and Danish allies had been defeated and the military part of the Norman Conquest virtually completed...
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