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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
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Edward, a son of the
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English king Edmund' Ironside, by his wife
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Agatha, a kinswoman of the emperor Henry II., and was born probably in Hungary some time before 1057, the
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year of his
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father's
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death . After the death of Harold in 1o66, Archbishop Aldred and the citizens of
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London desired to make him king, but on the advance of William, Edgar and his supporters made their submission . In 1o68, after the failure of the first rising of the north, Edgar retired to Scotland,- when his
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sister Margaret married the Scottish king, Malcolm Canmore . Next year he returned to take
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part in the second rising, but, this proving no more successful than the first, he again took
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refuge in Scotland . In 1074 he went to
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Normandy and made peace with William . In the struggle between Henry I. and Robert of Normandy, Edgar sided with the latter . He was taken prisoner at the
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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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