Eadwig was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young children when their father was killed trying to rescue his seneschal from attack by an outlawed thief on 26 May 946. As Edmund's sons were too young to rule he was succeeded by his brother Eadred, who suffered from ill health and died unmarried in his early 30s.
Eadwig in the early fourteenth-century Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England
Silver penny, obverse, inscribed 'EADǷIG REX'
HT1 style reverse inscribed 'HERIGER MO'. Heriger was a York moneyer.
Edwy and Elgiva, A Scene from Saxon History; William Hamilton, 1793
Edmund I or Eadmund I was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great. After Edward died in 924, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Edmund's half-brother Æthelstan. Edmund was crowned after Æthelstan died childless in 939. He had two sons, Eadwig and Edgar, by his first wife Ælfgifu, and none by his second wife Æthelflæd. His sons were young children when he was killed in a brawl with an outlaw at Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire, and he was succeeded by his younger brother Eadred, who died in 955 and was followed by Edmund's sons in succession.
Edmund in the late thirteenth-century Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
The name 'Anlaf' as it is shown in ASC C, folio 141v of British Library Cotton MS Tiberius B
Silver penny, obverse inscribed 'EADMUND REX'
Reverse inscribed 'EOFERMUND M'
