aka Eadwig. Eldest son of Edmund and St. Elfgifu. Became king 955. Exiled Dunstan for refusing to authorise his proposed marriage with Aelfgifu. Forced by the witan to resign the country north of the Thames to his brother Edgar, 95 7. Appointed two opponents of Dunstan's monastic reforms to the see of Canterbury (The concise dictionary of national biography. Part 1 : from the beginnings till 190. London : Oxford University Press, 1969, pg. 390).

Eadwig, more rarely Edwy (941? ? 1 October 959), sometimes nicknamed All-Fair or the Fair, was King of England from 955 until his death four years later. The eldest son of King Edmund and Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, Eadwig was chosen by the nobility to succeed his uncle Eadred as King. His short reign was marked by ongoing conflicts with his family, thegns, and especially the Church, under the leadership of Saint Dunstan and Archbishop Odo (wikipedia.com)