# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-theling
# Generated: 2026-09-01T23:24:41.731Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-theling"
name: "Edgar Ætheling"
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description: "The last man standing in the royal line of Wessex who was proclaimed king of England in 1066 but never crowned — pushed aside by William the Conqueror, then spent sixty years wandering through failed rebellions, Italian exile, and the wreckage of the Norman world."
tagline: "Disputed King of England"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edgar_the_%C3%86theling.jpg"
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deathDate: "1200"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Edgar Ætheling was born around 1052, the final male heir of the house of Cerdic. After Harold II fell at Hastings, the Archbishop of York and London's leading citizens backed him for the throne with support from Earls Edwin and Morcar, but he was never anointed. He submitted to William at Berkhamsted and later joined revolts that went nowhere. After the last attempt collapsed, he gave up his English lands and left for Norman Apulia in southern Italy, possibly joining the First Crusade or at least making pilgrimage to Jerusalem once it fell. He returned to get tangled in Norman succession fights before withdrawing to the countryside, where he lived quietly until 1125 or later.