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Edgar The Aetheling: Quick Facts

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Born Hungary
Died c.1125
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]
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Saint Benedict Biscop
English abbot
King of England
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
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St. Oswald of York
English saint
Edgar, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library (Vesp. MS. A viii)
Edgar
king of England
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Ealdred
Anglo-Saxon archbishop
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St. Lawrence of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
Athelstan
Athelstan
king of England
Edmund I
Edmund I
king of England
Edmund II
Edmund II
king of England
Eadred, shown on a 10th-century silver penny; in the British Museum
Eadred
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]
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]
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Priscilla Alden
English colonist
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John Alden
English colonist
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Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
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Beatrice Webb
British economist