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Eadwig

/ ˈɛdwɪɡ, ˈɛdwɪ /

noun

  1. died 959 ad , king of England (955–57)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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—Mention of this road, in the neighbourhood of Malmsbury, occurs in two charters of the Saxon kings Athelstan and Eadwig, Nos.

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While he was there, the people of the north revolted from Eadwig, and chose his younger brother Eadgar as king.

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Upon this, Oda, taking courage, declared Eadwig and his young wife to be separated as too near of kin, and even seized her and had her carried beyond sea.

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Eadwig was swayed by a woman of high lineage, �thelgifu; and the quarrel between her and the older counsellors of Eadred broke into open strife at the coronation feast.

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