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King Edgar Achieves Peace, Stability, and Prosperity

Edgar (also spelled Eadger): birth 943/944 AD/crowned King of the Mercians and Northumbrians in 957, King of the West Saxons or Wessex in 959, reckoned as King of all England from 959/death 975 at age...

Kings & Queens of England: 1/8: The Saxons Get the Savagery Started is the first in a series of eight videos providing an overview of the lives and the interesting and scandalous stories of the Kings and Queens of England. This video covers the early Anglo Saxon kings and the conquering Viking kings of Denmark up to the Norman conquest of 1066. Kings included are Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan, Edmund I, Eadred, Eadwig, Edgar the Peaceful, Edward the Martyr, Æthelred the Unready, Sweyn Forkbeard, Edmund Ironside, Cnut, Harold Harefoot, Harthacnut, and Edward the Confessor.

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King Edgar Achieves Peace, Stability, and Prosperity

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