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发信人: Systems (Queen Victoria Died), 信区: English
标 题: The Anglo Saxons--EDGAR
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年04月06日18:12:43 星期天), 站内信件
EDGAR (r. 959-975)
Edgar, king in Mercia and the Danelaw from 957, succeeded his brother as kin
g of the English on Edwy's death in 959 - a death which probably prevented c
ivil war breaking out between the two brothers. Edgar was a firm and capable
ruler whose power was acknowledged by other rulers in Britain, as well as b
y Welsh and Scottish kings. Edgar's late coronation in 973 at Bath was the f
irst to be recorded in some detail; his queen Aelfthryth was the first conso
rt to be crowned queen of England.
Edgar was the patron of a great monastic revival which owed much to his asso
ciation with Archbishop Dunstan. New bishoprics were created, Benedictine mo
nasteries were reformed and old monastic sites were re-endowed with royal gr
ants, some of which were of land recovered from the Vikings.
In the 970s and in the absence of Viking attacks, Edgar - a stern judge - is
sued laws which for the first time dealt with Northumbria (parts of which we
re 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 or
der was emerging; the Monastic Agreement (c.970) praised Edgar as 'the glori
ous, by the grace of Christ illustrious king of the English and of the other
peoples dwelling within the bounds of the island of Britain'. After his dea
th on 8 July 975, Edgar was buried at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.
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