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EDGAR, or EADGAR (c. 1050-c. 1130)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 934 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDGAR, or EADGAR (c. 1050-c. 1130)  , called the lEtheling, was the. son of See also:Edward, a son of the See also:English See also:king See also:Edmund' Ironside, by his wife See also:Agatha, a kinswoman of the See also:emperor See also:Henry II., and was See also:born probably in See also:Hungary some See also:time before 1057, the See also:year of his See also:father's See also:death . After the death of Harold in 1o66, See also:Archbishop See also:Aldred and the citizens of See also:London desired to make him king, but on the advance of See also:William, See also:Edgar and his supporters made their submission . In 1o68, after the failure of the first rising of the See also:north, Edgar retired to See also:Scotland,- when his See also:sister See also:Margaret married the Scottish king, See also:Malcolm Canmore . Next year he returned to take See also:part in the second rising, but, this proving no more successful than the first, he again took See also:refuge in Scotland . In 1074 he went to See also:Normandy and made See also:peace with William . In the struggle between Henry I. and See also:Robert of Normandy, Edgar sided with the latter . He was taken prisoner at the See also:battle of Tinchebrai in iio6, but was subsequently released . The date of his death is uncertain, but he was certainly alive about 1125 .

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