Saint Edgar the Peaceful
![[painting of Saint Edgar]](sainte34.jpg "??kb jpg image of Edgar the Peaceful, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Memorial
- 8 July
- Profile
- Son of King Edmund I.
King of the Mercians and Northumbrians in 957.
King of the West Saxons on 1 October 959, which effectively made him king of all England.
Efficient, peaceful, and unusually tolerant of local customs.
Supported his friend Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Oswald of York, and Bishop Aethelwold of Winchester in founding abbeys, and enacted penalties for nonpayment of tithes and Peter's pence.
Father of Saint Edward the Martyr.
- Born
- 943-944
- Died
- 8 July 975
- Patronage
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kings,
widowers
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