638797314. Edgar Atheling
1053-5, Edgar born in Hungary, s/o 756441102. Edward Aetheling & 756441103. Agatha of Hungary.
1056, Edgar’s father Edward recalled to England as heir to the
crown by King Edward the Confessor.
1057, Edgar’s father arrived back in England with his son
Edgar.
4/9/1057, Edgar’s father died.
1064, Earl Harold Godwinson of Wessex and Hereford, shipwrecked
off France, was taken to William, duke of Normandy, who made him swear to his
succession.
1/5/1066, King Edward the Confessor died without a male heir.
1066, Edgar elected [but
never crowned] King of England. Soon after, Harold Godwinson elected King
because Edgar was considered too young to defend England against invasion.
10/14/1066, Duke William learned that Harold had been crowned
King and invaded England, defeating [and killing] Harold at the Battle of Hastings.
10/25/1066, William I
crowned King of England.
1067, King William holds a court at Berkhampstead, where he
receives Edgar Atheling. (S) William the Conqueror, Douglas, 1964, P206.
2/21/1067 from Penvensy, King William returned to Normandy,
taking Edgar Atheling and Waltheof of Northumberland.
Summer/1067, Edgar’s mother Agatha, with his sisters Margaret
and Christina, returned to England.
Summer/1068, Edgar involved in the rebellion of earls Edwain
and Morcar; fled to Scotland with his family [‘clitone Eadgaro et matre sua
Agatha duabusque sororibus suis Margareta et Christina’.]
1/1069, William Malet and fellow captains, Robert Fitz-Richard
and William of Ghent, with 500 picked knights had to fight off a local revolt
and siege of York, headed by Edgar the Atheling. Robert Fitz-Richard and many
of his men were killed and it was only by the timely arrival of King William that
the city of York was saved.
1069-70 at Dumferline, King Malcolm of Scotland married Edgar’s
sister Margaret.
1072, King William invaded Scotland by land and sea and forced
King Malcom to do homage. Edgar went into exile in Flanders.
1073, The Danes under Osbrorn invade England at the Ouse. Joined
by Edgar, they lay siege to York. The Governor, William Malet was captured, and
the the cathedral burned.
1073, King William breaks the siege of York, and Edgar again
flees to Scotland.
1074, King Philip offered Edgar the Atheling Montreuil-sur-Mer.
(S) William the Conqueror, Douglas, 1999.
7/8/1074, Edgar back in Scotland where King Malcolm was
building a fleet to invade England. King Malcolm encouraged Edgar to return to
France and accept the French King’s offer of the castle of Montreuil on the
Normandy border.
1074-5, Edgar was going to Normandy, where King Philip promised
lands, when his fleet was wrecked by a storm.
1075, King Malcolm of Scotland and Queen Margaret gave her
brother Edgar Atheling “immense treasure”, and convinced him to renounce his
claim to the English throne, and sent him to make peace with King William. (S)
Kingdom of the Scots, Barrow, 2003, P279.
1075, Edgar travels to Rouen where he makes peace with King
William. [Edgar given ‘a pound weight of silver daily’ by King William.] (S)
Half Hours of English History, Knight, 1851, P343.
1077, King Malcolm again invaded England. (S) History of
Scotland, V1, Helme, 1806, P71.
1079, King Malcolm again invaded the north of England in a raid
that lasted a month.
1085, Edgar traveled to Normandy with King William, where they
parted company. (S) General History of Scotland, V1, Guthrie, 1767, P276.
1086, ‘clito Eadgarus’ went to Apulia with 200 knights. [A
pilgrimage to the Holy Land via Italy.] (S) Chronological Abridgement,
Moleville, 1812, P138.
9/26/1087, William Rufus
crowned King of England; succeeding William the Conqueror. His elder
brother Robert became Duke of Normandy.
1087, After the death of King William, Edgar became an advisor
to Robert, duke of Normandy, in his conflict with his brother King William
Rufus.
5/1088, King Malcom attacked Cumberland. (S) Transactions –
Dumfries, V21, 1910, P64.
1090, King Malcolm and Edgar invaded Northumberland; but forced
to retreat by King William Rufus. (S) Roots of Stone, Allison, 2011.
5/1091, Malcolm with Edgar’s support invaded Northumbria again,
besieging Newcastle. [King William II was in Normandy.]
9/1091, King William organized an ocean assault on Scotland,
hugging the coast while moving North. Storms depleted his ships and supplies.
The two armies met at Lothian. A truce agreement was arranged by Edgar
Aetheling representing Malcolm, and Duke Robert representing William. Malcolm,
for homage, was restored to his English lands, and given 12 gold marks
annually. Edgar lost the lands given to him by Duke Robert. Edgar returned to
Scotland. (S) Ecclesiastical History, V3, Vitalis, 1854, P9.
12/1091, Edgar returned to Normandy with Duke Robert. (S)
Annals of England, 1876, P98.
1092, King Malcolm and Edgar travel to Gloucester to treat
[unsuccessfully] for peace with King William.
1093, Edgar was sent from Scotland as an ambassador to King
William Rufus to make a peace agreement.
8/24/1093, King Malcolm appeared at King William’s court at
Gloucester to protest incursions by Northumberland forces in violation of the
peace agreement.
11/13/1093, King Malcom of Scotland killed in the battle of
Alnwick. [Edgar’s nephew Edward, s/o Malcom, suffered mortal wounds in the
battle.]
11/16/1093, Edgar’s sister Queen Margaret of Scotland died.
11/12/1094, King Duncan II of Scotland murdered; his brother
Edmund becoming joint-King with their uncle King Donald III.
8/30/1095, ‘Edgari aederling’ subscribed the charter under
which ‘Edgarus filius Malcolmi Regis Scottorum’ made grants for the souls of ‘fratrum
meorum Doncani et Edwardi’.
1096, Edgar led an English army invading Scotland. He was able
to dispose King Donald III. Edgar put his nephew [also named Edgar] by his
sister Margaret on the Scottish throne.
1097, Edgar with Duke Robert attended the 1st
crusade to the holy lands.
3/1098, Edgar commanded a fleet-based force that captured
Latakia in Byzantium for Robert, duke of Normandy.
1099, The crusaders returned from the Holy Land.
8/5/1100, Henry I
crowned King of England; usurping his oldest brother Duke Robert.
11/11/1100 in London, King Henry I married Maud, Edgar’s neice.
7/20/1101, Henry’s brother Duke Robert invaded England, landing
at Portsmouth.
1102, Edgar made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
9/28/1106, Edgar, supporting Robert, duke of Normandy, taken
prisoner at the battle of Tinchebray by King Henry I of England. [Duke Robert,
also captured, spent the rest of his life in prison in England.]
1110, Edgar died in England. (S) Prose, Percival, 1826, P914.
(S) Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. (S) Pictorial History of
England, Craik, 1848, P828.
Family notes:
·
Huntingdon Priory chronicle: Extracts provided
for King Edward I in 1291, state that Edward, son of Edmund Ironside, was the father
of Margaret queen of Scots and Edgar, and that Edgar was the father of
Margaret [of whom was born Henry called Lupellus].
