Events Tagged: "Edgar"

8 events with tag "Edgar"

960 ID: 5849
Benedictine Reform begins - Dunstan as Archbishop, backed by Edgar, starts replacing secular clergy with monks
ID: 5849
Canterbury
962 ID: 2634
Edgar's law codes issued - uniform laws for all England, blend of Anglo-Saxon and Danish customs
ID: 2634
Winchester
973 ID: 2635
Eight kings row Edgar on River Dee - after coronation, symbolic submission of British rulers to English king
ID: 2635
Chester
973 ID: 5853
Edgar grants vast estates to reformed monasteries - transfers perhaps 1/3 of royal lands to monastic control
ID: 5853
Winchester
973 ID: 2563
May 11, 973
Edgar crowned at Bath - first coronation using order still used today, rowed by eight kings on River Dee
ID: 2563
Bath
975 ID: 5854
July 8, 975
Death of Edgar triggers succession crisis - pro-monastic party backs Edward, anti-monastic nobles back Aethelred
ID: 5854
Winchester
1066 ID: 2586
December 1066
Submission at Berkhamsted - Edgar Atheling and English nobles submit to William, path to throne clear
ID: 2586
Berkhamsted
1855 ID: 904
Marx's son Edgar dies of intestinal tuberculosis at age 8
ID: 904