II ETHELRED (968-1016)

1 ETHELRED II^1,2,3,4 (968-1016) [14607]. Born 0968.³ Marr EMMA 1002.⁵ Died 23 Apr 1016.^2,4

2 EDGAR^4,6,7 (943-975) [14612]. Born 0943.⁶ Marr ELFLEDA bef 0967.⁸ Marr ELFRIDA bef 0968.⁸ Died 8 Jul 0975.^6,7 Buried Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.⁷

From History of the Monarchy (website)

"Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as king of the English on Edway's death in 959. His death probably prevented civil war breaking out between the two brothers.

Edgar was a firm and capable ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britan, as well as by Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the first to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first consort to be crowned queen of England.

Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his association with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine monasteries were reformed and old monastics sites were re-endowed with royal grants, some of which were land recovered from the Vikings.

In the 970's and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - issued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which were in the Danelaw) as well as Wessex and Mercia. Edgar's coinage was uniform throughout the kingdom. A more united kingdom based on royal justice and order was emerging. The Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glorious, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britan'.

After his death on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.".

4 Edmund the ELDER^2,9,10 (aft921-946) [14617]. Born btw 0921 and 0923.^2,10 Died 26 May 0946, Pucklekirk (Pucklechurch), Gloucestershire.^2,10 Buried Glastonbury.¹¹

We know that the father of King Edgar was Edmund the Elder. As noted below, he was also known as "the Deed-Doer" and "the Magnificent." From The English Cyclopaedia edited by Charles Knight, 1856, we learn the following about Edmund:

1. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Edgiva.

2. He was likely born sometime before 923. (Other sources, see below, report 921.)

3. Edmund died May 26, 946 in Pucklekirk, Gloucestershire.

3. Edmund's father, Edward the Elder, died in 925.

4. Edmund had a brother, Edred, who succeeded him.

The current online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica reports a birth date for Edmund of 921 and also gives his place of death as Pucklechurch. Wife Edgiva is here shown as Eadgifu.

Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford, 2014, reports that Edmund had only two wives, the first being the mother of King Edgar, here shown as St. Aelfgith. (Edgiva, Eadgifu and St. Aelfgith all appear to be the same person.) She died in 944. Edmund's second wife was Ethelflaed. We also learn that Edmund was buried at Glastonbury.

8 Edward the ELDER (875-bef925) [14620]. Born 0875.¹² Died btw 0924 and 0925, Farrington, Berkshire.^10,13,14 Buried New Minster, Winchester.¹³

The History of the Anglo-Saxons by Sharon Turner, 1823, reports on Edward's families. Edward had a son named Athelstan but the identity of the mother is uncertain. With his first wife (name unknown) Edward had two sons, Ethelward and Edwin, and six daughters. With his second wife (or third according to other sources, named Edgiva as we have already seen), Edward had two more sons, Edmund (the Elder) and Edred. as well as three more daughters.

9 EDGIVA^2,10 ( - ) [14621].

Edgiva is the third wife of Edward the Elder.

5 ST. AELFGITH¹¹ ( -944) [14623]. Died 0944.¹¹

3 ELFRIDA⁴ (945-1000) [14613]. Born 0945.⁶ Died 1000.⁶

Sources

1	"The Collegiate, School and Family History of England by Edward Farr, 1856".

2	"Online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica".

3	"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard and Kaleen E. Beall, 2004".

4	"The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer edited by William Harrison De Puy, 1908".

5	"The Rise of the Medieval World, 500-1300: A Biographical Dictionary by Jana K. Schulman, 2002".

6	"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E. Beall, 2004".

7	"History of the Monarchy (website)".

8	"Estimated based on related dates and information".

9	"English Monarchs-Kings and Queens of England (website)".

10	"The English Cyclopaedia edited by Charles Knight, 1856".

11	"Early British Kingdoms by David Nash Ford, 2014".

12	"Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700,".

13	"History of the Monarchy-Kings and Queens of England".

14	"The Universal Chronologist, and Historical Register by William Henry Ireland and Joseph Martin, 1826".