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Edgar "The Peaceable" King of Wessex[1]

Male 0943 - 0975  (31 years)Deceased


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  • First & lastname Edgar "The Peaceable" King of Wessex 
    Birth 7 Aug 0943  Wessex Kingdom, Anglo Saxon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 8 Jul 0975  Winchester, Hampshire, , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age 31 years 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Cerdic the Saxon (1st King of Wessex) 1,   b. 467, Ancient Saxony, Northern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 534, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  (14 x Great Grandfather) 
    Elfleda Of England,   b. Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Grandmother) 
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    Person ID P4875  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

    Father Ancestors Edmund II ( King of Wessex) WESSEX,   b. 27 Oct 921, Winchester, Hampshire, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 May 946, Murdered- Puckle Church, Glastonbury, Dorset, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Ancestors Elgiva "Saint Ælfgifu" Princess of England and Wessex,   b. 922, Wessex Kingdom, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Oct 944, Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1045  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Wife 1 Wulfthyth 
    Family ID F1812  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

    Wife 2 Ancestors Aelfhyth Ordgar, of Devonshire England,   b. 947, Lydford Castle, Devonshire, , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1000, Wherwell, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Marriage 0965  , , Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age at Marriage He : ~ 21 years and 4 months - She : ~ 18 years. 
    Children 
    +1. Aethelred II ( the unready) King of England,   b. 19 Mar 968, Wessex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1016, London, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Emma of Normandy  m. 1002
     [Father: natural]
    Family ID F1813  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

    Children 
     1. St Edward "the martyr" (king of Wessex),   b. 962   d. 978, Murdered, at, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 16 years)  [Father: natural]
     2. St Edith (Eadgyth) of Wilton,   b. 963   d. 984 (Age 21 years)  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F5866  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S-2109027946] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6361038&pid=4875