| King Edwy AKA Edwy All-Fair Born: c. 941 AD
Birthplace: Wessex, England
Died: 1-Oct-959 AD
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Winchester Cathedral
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Royalty Nationality: England
Executive summary: King of England 955-59 AD King Edwy "The Fair", King of the English, was the eldest son of King Edmund I and Aelfgifu, and succeeded his uncle King Edred in 955, when he was little more than fifteen years old. He was crowned at Kingston by Archbishop Odo, and his troubles began at the coronation feast. He had retired to enjoy the company of the ladies Aethelgifu (perhaps his foster mother) and her daughter Aelfgifu, whom the king intended to marry. The nobles resented the king's withdrawal, and he was induced by Dunstan and Cynesige, bishop of Lichfield, to return to the feast. Edwy naturally resented this interference, and in 957 Dunstan was driven into exile. By the year 956 Aelfgifu had become the king's wife, but in 958 Archbishop Odo of Canterbury secured their separation on the ground of their being too closely akin. Edwy, to judge from the disproportionately large numbers of charters issued during his reign, seems to have been weakly lavish in the granting of privileges, and soon the chief men of Mercia and Northumbria were disgusted by his partiality for Wessex. The result was that in the year 957 his brother, the Aetheling Edgar, was chosen as king by the Mercians and Northumbrians. It is probable that no actual conflict took place, and in 959, on Edwy's death, Edgar acceded peaceably to the combined kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria.
Father: King Edmund I
Mother: Elgiva
Brother: King Edgar I
Wife: Elgiva (annulled)
UK Monarch 23-Nov-955 to 1-Oct-959
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