biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (943–75)
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| biography:
| King of all England (from 959), the younger son of Edmund I (reigned 939–46). He was chosen as King of Mercia and Northumbria when his brother Eadwig (?–959) was deposed there in 957, and King of all England after the death of Eadwig, who still controlled Wessex and Kent. He encouraged the English monastic revival as a means of enhancing his prestige and power. In c.973 he introduced a uniform currency based on new silver pennies, whose design was subsequently altered every few years by periodic recoinages. |
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