Eadwig
Britishnoun
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He believes the psalter's capital letters were based on designs created by a master scribe, Eadwig Basan, who is not known to have been working in Canterbury until a few years after Alphege's death.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020
While he was there, the people of the north revolted from Eadwig, and chose his younger brother Eadgar as king.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William
The king himself died in 955, and was succeeded by his nephew Eadwig.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant
It is enough for me to maintain two things: that they are popular traditions; and that without these popular traditions we should have bothered about Alfred about as much as we bother about Eadwig.
From The Ballad of the White Horse by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Eadwig, reign of, 64; his quarrel with the clergy, 65; his marriage and death, 67.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
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