The feud between Eadwig and Dunstan which began on the day of Eadwig's coronation banquet when he failed to attend a meeting of nobles. When Dunstan eventually found the young monarch, he was cavorting with a noblewoman named Æthelgifu and refused to return with the bishop. Eadwig, also spelled Edwy, c. 940 - 959, aka All-Fair. King of England from 955 until his premature death in 959. Dunstan, 909 – 988. Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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