Edgar the �theling c.1050-c.1125
English prince

Born in Hungary, the son of Edward the �theling and grandson of Edmund II, Ironside, he was the legitimate heir to the English throne on the death of his great-uncle Edward the Confessor (1066). He was passed over as king in favour of Harold Godwinsson, but after Harold's defeat and death at Hastings, some English nobles supported the �theling's claims against William the Conqueror, until he was compelled to submit to William (1067). In 1068 he fled to Scotland, where King Malcolm III (Canmore) welcomed him and married his sister, St Margaret. In 1074 the �theling made peace with William, and led the Norman expedition that conquered Apulia (1086) and an expedition to Scotland (1097) to depose the usurper Donald Bane and put Malcolm's son Edgar on the throne. He was captured by Henry I (1106) but was released and spent his last years in obscurity.