| Born | 944 | Born at | |  | | Died | 975 | Buried at | Glastonbury | | | Edgar became King of Mercia and Northumbria from 957 and King of Wessex from October 959 making him ruler of the three most important areas of Britain. Edgar was formally crowned in 973 and recalled Bishop Dunstan from exile making him Archbishop of Canterbury and his chief advisor. Edgar married Ethelflead, Wulfthryth, and Elfthryth. Edgar kept his reign free from invasion which may have been due to links with the royal houses abroad. Five of his father's sisters were married to the heads of foreign countries including the Germans and Vikings.
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- J.D. Mackie,A History of Scotland,1978
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| 946 | May | Eadred becomes King of Wessex
| | | Eadred became King of Wessex. He followed his brother Edmund who was murdered. Edmund left two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, who were both too young to rule. | | 972 | | Pershore Abbey charter confirmed
| | | The rule of Benedictine was introduced to the abbey by St Oswald, the Bishop of Worcester. King Edgar confirmed the estates that the abbey owned. | | | Consecration of Peterborough Abbey
| | | Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Oswald, the Archbishop of York, consecrated the abbey at Peterborough in the presence of King Edgar. | | 973 | | Edgar's water-pageant
| | | Edgar arranged a water-pageant on the river Dee where he was rowed from Chester to the Minster of St. John by eight kings including Kenneth of Scotland, Malcolm of Cumberland, Maccus of the Isles and five welsh princes. Edgar held a festival in the honour of St. John but more likely to show his superiority over the other kings. | | May 11 | Coronation of King Edgar
| | | King Edgar was crowned at Bath Abbey. | | 975 | Jul | Edward becomes king
| | | Edward, the eldest son of Edgar, became the king of the English at the age of fourteen when his father died. Dunstan became his guardian. |
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