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S2.23 Edgar

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The death of Malcolm III in 1093 led to something of a succession crisis in Scotland and by 1097, Malcolm's brother (Donalbain) and one of his sons (Duncan II) had not done a very good job of ruling the country. Next up was Edgar, backed by the English king, William Rufus, and his namesake uncle, Edgar the Aetheling, Edgar sought to re-establish stability in Scotland, but would he be the king to get things back on track? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rex Factor! This week, Edka!

0:14.0

With your host Graham

0:19.0

with your host Graham Duke and Ali

0:28.5

and Ali

0:32.3

Hello and welcome to re-rax factory reviewing all the Kings and Queens of Scots from

0:36.0

Kenneth Mcaupin to James the 6th and this week oh dear oh dear now you've going to confuse recently with people with familiar names

0:46.4

such as the difference between the Donald and a Duncan.

0:49.4

Very easy mistakes, Meg. I'm sure you all agree.

0:51.6

Now this week we've got Edgar, which is a different kind of name to Donald and Duncan

0:55.1

Significantly but it is similar to the name of a Saxon king that we reviewed

1:00.4

Called Edgar the Peaceable. Right.

1:03.0

Now this is why, when I said when I grabbed the microphone just then to do the introduction to this

1:08.7

week I said, who is it?

1:10.5

And you went, Edgar and then press record just to see my face link. Oh dear.

1:16.9

But also it's rather similar to Edgar the Etheling who is Edgar of Scotland's uncle.

1:23.0

So we have three notable Edgar's for you to deal with,

1:27.0

at least two of whom will feature prominently in this episode.

1:30.0

And we've covered three already.

1:32.0

So to make it clear who we're talking about... And we've covered three already.

1:33.0

So to make it clear who we're talking about, when we say Edgar, we will mean King Edgar of Scotland,

1:38.3

the subject of this episode.

1:40.6

If we mean Edgar the Etheling, we'll maybe try to just say the Etheling.

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