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Eadwig c. 940 – 1 October 959), was King of the English from 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I and Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were too young to rule when Edmund was killed in 946, so he was succeeded by his brother Eadred, who died young and unmarried. Eadwig became king in 955, and clashed at the beginning of his reign with Dunstan, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, and exiled him to Flanders. In 956 he issued over sixty charters transferring land, perhaps as an attempt to buy support or to reward his favourites. In 957 the kingdom was divided between Eadwig, south of the Thames, and Edgar to its northt. Historians disagree as to the reasons for this. The next year, Oda, Archbishop of Canterbury, separated Eadwig from his wife Ælfgifu on the grounds of consanguinity. Edgar succeeded to the whole kingdom when Eadwig died in 959. His character and the events of his reign are now seen as unclear due to uncertain and conflicting evidence. (Full article...)