Edgar, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws, 12;
eclipses the fame of Alfred, 67, 129;
English and Danes reconciled on basis of law of, 67;
made a Confessor, 67;
called ‘darling of the English,’ 161 _n._
Edington, Wilts., battle of, 57, 61, 102, 103, 162.
Edmund, St., king of the East Angles, martyred by the Danes, 88.
Edmund, king of the West Saxons, panegyrics on, in Chronicle and Laws,
12.
Edward, king of the West Saxons, son of Alfred, 96 _n._, 196;
called ‘the Great,’ 96 _n._;
military policy of, 111;
defeats the Danes at Farnham, 114;
blockades them on the Colne, 114-5;
captures Benfleet, 115;
document addressed to, 125-6;
carries out Alfred’s foundation of the New Minster, 129 _n._
Edward the Confessor, king of England, transference of See of Devon and
Cornwall to Exeter by, 18, 19.
Edward I, king of England, comparison of, with Alfred, 200-2;
bases the constitution on popular representation, 210;
one of the creators of England’s greatness, 200 _n._
Egbert, king of the West Saxons, Celts under, take part with the Danes,
43;
advance of Wessex under, 85;
reduces the Welsh, 85;
makes Æthelwulf king of Kent, 85;
his dominions divided at his death, 86;
his sojourn on the Continent, 86;
union of England under, 210.
Egbert, king of part of Northumbria, set up by the Danes, 88.
Einhard, his life of Charles the Great modelled on Suetonius’ life of
Augustus, 10.
Elfred, _see_ Æthelred.
Elias III, patriarch of Jerusalem, Alfred corresponds with, 16, 33, 34,
132;
miscalled Abel, and Bel, 33-4.
Elised, _see_ Helised.
Elizabeth, queen of England, ecclesiastical policy of, 211.
Ely, Cambridgeshire, Hereward’s defence of, 59.
England, English, kings of, _see_ Æthelred II, Canute, Edward the
Confessor, Edward I, George III, Henry II, Henry VI, Henry VIII,
John, Richard I, William I;
queens of, _see_ Elizabeth, Victoria.
Englefield, near Reading, Berks., Danes defeated at, 93.
Essex ceded to the Danes, 105.