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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 1519 — Chapter XVI · THE INTERREGNUM.[1503] October 15–December 25, 1066.

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See the quotation from Florence in p. 526. So Will. Pict. 140. “Regem statuerant Edgarum Athelinum, ex Edwardi Regis nobilitate, annis puerum.” Ord. Vit. 502 D. “Interemto Heraldo, Stigandus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, et præclari Comites Eduinus et Morcarus, aliique primates Anglorum qui Senlacio bello non interfuerunt, Edgarum Clitonem filium Eduardi Regis Hunorum [see vol. ii. p. 622], filii Edmundi Irnesidæ, id est Ferrei-Lateris, Regem statuerunt.” Benoît (37742), translating William of Poitiers (see above, p. 525), says;

“Esleu unt e fait seignor

D’un chevalier mult jent meschin

Qui ert apelé Addelin,

De la lignée au bon Ewart;

Fust od dutance ou à regart,

En firent rei: kar por morir

Ne porreient-il-ce soffrir

Qu’eussent rei en Engleterre

Qu’estraiz e nez fut d’autre terre.”

Yet young Eadgar was hardly more than an Englishman by courtesy.

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