# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-the-peaceful
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:27:21.511Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-the-peaceful"
name: "Edgar the Peaceful"
slug: "edgar-the-peaceful"
description: "A tenth-century English king who presided over sixteen years without a single Viking raid — a stretch so unusual for the era that chroniclers nicknamed him \"the Peaceful\" and later writers remembered his reign as a lost golden age."
tagline: "King of the English (r. 959–975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/New_Minster_Charter_966_detail_Edgar.jpg"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "943"
deathDate: "0975-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.5
  momentum:             5.379443134188433
  historical:           23.74400266666667
  currentAttention:     15.56372258446947
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Edgar became king of all England in 959 when his older brother Eadwig died, inheriting a realm that had endured Viking invasions for over a century. His reign fell during a rare lull in attacks between the mid-950s and early 980s, and he used the breathing room to back the English Benedictine Reform, a religious movement that reshaped monasteries into acquisitive powerhouses grabbing estates from lay landowners. In the early 970s he overhauled the coinage system, replacing a patchwork of local mints with a standardised currency. He died in 975 at roughly thirty-one, and the succession immediately fractured: his elder son Edward the Martyr took the throne with the Archbishop of Canterbury's support, only to be murdered three years later, making way for his younger half-brother Æthelred the Unready. The chaos that followed made Edgar's sixteen years look even better in hindsight — historians now call it the peak of Anglo-Saxon culture, though some argue the disorder was simply the bill coming due for his heavy hand.