aka Eagdar, Edgar the Peaceful. Chosen king of the land north of the Thames by the northern rebels, 957. Appointed Dunstan his chief minister. Chosen king by the whole people, 959. Imposed on the rebellious prince of North Wales a tribute of three hundred wolves' heads for four years, about 968. Pacified Northumbria, 966. Entrusted the province to Earl Oslac, 966. Said to have purchased the goodwill of Kenneth, king of Scotland, by the grant of Lothian. allowed limited self-government to the Danes of the north. Apppointed Oswald, a Northumbrian Dane, archbishop of York, 972. Solemly crowned at Bath, possibly as an enumciation of the consumation of English unity, 973. Received homage of eight British princes at Chester, 973. Made an alliance with the emperor Otto the Great. Dispossessed clerks in favour of Benedictine monks at Chertsey, Milton, Exeter, Ely, Peterborough, Thorney, and throughout Mercia. Organised a system of naval defence against the northern pirates, and used the territorial division of the hundred as the basis of an efficient police system. According to legend, was ordered by Dunstan to do pennance for incontinance. Reports of the looseness of his private life probably exaggerated by the national party, which disliked his Danish sympathies (The concise dictionary of national biography. Part 1 : from the beginnings till 1900. London : Oxford University Press, 1969, pg. 383).
Buried Glastonbury Abbey, England (Paul B. McBride genealogy page).