King Edgar
King of all England from 959 to 975, consecrated at Bath late in his reign, on Whitsunday 973.
king 959–975
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154, in the edition of John Earle (Oxford, 1865) · entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155
Her wæs Eadgar eþeling gehalgod to cyninge on Pentecoste mæsse dæi on v id' Mai. þe xiii geare þe he to rice feng. æt Hatabaðum. and he wæs þa ana wana xxx wintra. and sona æfter þam se cyng ge leadde ealle his scip here to Lægeceastre. and þær him comon ongean vi cyningas. and ealle wið trywsodon ꝥ hi woldon efen wyrhton beon on sæ and on lande.
In this year Prince Edgar was consecrated king at Bath on Whitsunday, May 11, in the thirteenth year after he came to the throne. He was then just short of thirty years old. Soon after that the king led his whole fleet to Chester, and six kings came there to meet him. They all promised that they would be his allies on sea and on land.
And her Eadward Eadgares sunu feng to rice. and þa sona on þam ilcan geare on herfeste æteowde cometa se steorra. and com þa on þam eaftran geare swiðe mycel hungor. and swyðe mænig fealde styrunga geond Angel cyn. [...]
And in this year Edward, Edgar’s son, came to the throne. Soon after, in the same year, at harvest time, the star called a comet appeared. And in the next year came a very great famine, and a great many troubles across England.