Ēadwig Engla Cyning
Eadwig | |
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Fæder | Ēadmund Æðeling |
Modor | Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury |
Geboren | 940 Westseaxena Rīce |
Deaþ | 1 Winterfylleð 959 Gloucester |
Eadwig wæs Engla Cyning fram 23. dæg Blotmonðes 955 oð his deað on 1. dæg Winterfylleðes 959. He wæs Eadmundes Cyninges ieldra sunu be his forma wife Ælfgifu, se stearf in 944. Eadwig and Eadgar wæron geonga bearn ðan Eadmund hiera fæder wæs be Liofan ofslean on 26. dæg Þrimilcemonðes 946. Forþæm þe Eadmundes sunan wæron geoga, þæs cyninges æftergenga wæs Eadred, se forþferde æfter endleofen wintrum.
Eadwig fang to rice in 955 þan he wæs fiftiene winterield, and he stearf beforan þe he biþ tweontig winter in 959.
Dunstan Abbod of Glæstingbyrig geneoðereode þon cyning and in 957 adraf he Dunstan abbod ofer sæ on Flæmingas. In þæm ilcan geare wæs his rice bedæled betweonum Eadwig and Eadgar, þe Eadwig gewilde in þæm landum besuðen Temes and Edgar benorðen hiere, and stærwriteras ne understandan hwæðer þis þis wæs be gecwydræden oððe æfter wiþersæcce.
In 978 totwæmde Oda arcebiscop Eadwig cyning and Ælgyfe Cwene, forþæm þe hie wæron to gesybbe.
Eadwig forþferde in 959 and Edgar his broðor fang to rice ðe heald þæt hele rice.