king edgar pacific rowed on the river dee by eight tributary princes 8 Edgar the Peaceful Old English: Ēadgār. 7 August 943 –
king edgar pacific rowed on the river dee by eight tributary princes 8 Edgar the Peaceful Old English: Ēadgār. 7 August 943 – 8 July 975 Peaceable, king of England 959–75 younger son Edmund I of England. cognomen, strong leader, shown by his seizure of the Northumbrian and Mercian kingdoms from his older brother, Eadwig, in 958.[citation needed] A conclave of nobles held Edgar to be king north of the Thames, and Edgar aspired to succeed to the English throne Though Edgar was not a particularly peaceable man, his reign was a peaceful one. The Kingdom of England was at its height. Edgar consolidated the political unity achieved by his predecessors. By the end of Edgar's reign, England was sufficiently unified that it was unlikely to regress back to a state of division among rival kingships, as it had to an extent under Eadred's reign
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