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See also:EDWY (EADWIG) , "THE See also:FAIR" (c. 940-959), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:English, was the eldest son of King See also:Edmund and IElfgifu, and
succeeded his See also:uncle Eadred in 955, when he was little more than fifteen years old. He was crowned at See also:Kingston by See also:Archbishop See also:Odo, and his troubles began at the See also:coronation feast. He had retired to enjoy the See also:company of the ladies IEthelgifu (perhaps his See also:foster-See also:mother) and her daughter IElfgifu, whom the king intended to marry. The nobles resented the king's withdrawal, and he was induced by See also:Dunstan and Cynesige, See also:bishop of See also:Lichfield, to return to the feast. Edwy naturally resented this interference, and in 457 Dunstan was driven into See also:- 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, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile. By the See also:year 956 IElfgifu had become the king's wife, but in 958 Archbishop Odo of See also:Canterbury secured their separation on the ground of their being too closely akin. Edwy, to See also:judge from the disproportionately large See also:numbers of charters issued during his reign, seems to have been weakly lavish in the granting of privileges, and soon the See also:chief men of See also:Mercia and See also:Northumbria were disgusted by his partiality for Wessex. The result was that in the year 957 his See also:brother, the See also:IEtheling See also:Edgar, was chosen as king by the Mercians and Northumbrians. It is probable that no actual conflict took See also:place, and in 959, on Edwy's See also:death, Edgar acceded peaceably to the combined kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria.
End of Article: EDWY (EADWIG)
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