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Eadwig

940 - 959

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Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, c. 940 – 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young children when their father was killed trying to rescue his seneschal from attack by an outlawed thief on 26 May 946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eadwig has received more than 2,429,762 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Eadwig is the 2,107th most popular politician (down from 2,053rd in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 500th in 2019) and the 89th most popular British Politician.

Eadwig was most famous for ruling as king of England from 955-959.

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  • 52

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  • 4.84

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eadwig ranks 2,107 out of 15,577. Before him are Cleomenes I, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Liu Shan, Tang of Shang, Albert, King of Sweden, and Herennius Etruscus. After him are Joseph McCarthy, Maria Mandl, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Senusret II, and Omar Bongo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Eadwig ranks 5. Before him are Hugh Capet, Ferdowsi, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, and Mieszko I of Poland. After him are Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, Henry III, Duke of Bavaria, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, and Abū Sahl al-Qūhī. Among people deceased in 959, Eadwig ranks 2. Before him is Constantine VII. After him is Pietro III Candiano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eadwig ranks 482 out of 7,765. Before him are Edmund Ironside (993), John Cleese (1939), Peter Brook (1925), Austen Chamberlain (1863), Arthur Balfour (1848), and Thomas Wolsey (1473). After him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), G. E. Moore (1873), Arthur Eddington (1882), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), and Olivia Newton-John (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Eadwig ranks 89. Before him are Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), James Callaghan (1912), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Edmund Ironside (993), Austen Chamberlain (1863), and Arthur Balfour (1848). After him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779), Stanley Baldwin (1867), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), and George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859).

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