EDWY (EADWIG)

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EDWY (EADWIG) , "THE

FAIR

FAIR

" (c. 940-959), king of the

English

ENGLISH

, was the eldest son of King Edmund and IElfgifu, and
succeeded his uncle Eadred in 955, when he was little more than fifteen years old. He was crowned at Kingston by Archbishop Odo, and his troubles began at the

coronation

CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

feast. He had retired to enjoy the company of the ladies IEthelgifu (perhaps his foster-

mother

MOTHER

) and her daughter IElfgifu, whom the king intended to marry. The nobles resented the king's withdrawal, and he was induced by Dunstan and Cynesige,

bishop

of Lichfield, to return to the feast.

Edwy

EDWY (EADWIG)

naturally resented this interference, and in 457 Dunstan was driven into

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

. By the year 956 IElfgifu had become the king's wife, but in 958 Archbishop Odo of Canterbury secured their separation on the ground of their being too closely akin.

Edwy

EDWY (EADWIG)

, to judge from the disproportionately large numbers of charters issued during his reign, seems to have been weakly lavish in the granting of privileges, and soon the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

men of Mercia and Northumbria were disgusted by his partiality for Wessex. The result was that in the year 957 his brother, the IEtheling Edgar, was chosen as king by the Mercians and Northumbrians. It is probable that no actual conflict took place, and in 959, on Edwy's death, Edgar acceded peaceably to the combined kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria.

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