PRINCE EDGAR a.d. 



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body, and commended to the custody of duke Godfrey, 

 departed out of this life, and was buried after the 

 Christian maner. Her name was Godwera. 



The voyage of Edgar the sonne of Edward which 

 was the sonne of Edmund surnamed Ironside, 

 brother unto K. Edward the confessor, (being 

 accompanied with vaHant Robert the sonne 

 of Godwin) unto Jerusalem, in the yeere of 

 our Lord 1102. Recorded by William of 

 Malmesburie, lib. 3. histo. fol. 58. 



Ubsequenti tempore cum Roberto filio J.D. 1102. 

 Godwini milite audacissimo Edgarus 

 Hierosolymam pertendit. Illud fuit 

 tempus quo Turci Baldwinum regem 

 apud Ramas obsederunt : qui cum ob- 

 sidionis injuriam ferre nequiret, per 

 medias hostium acies effugit, solius 

 Roberti opera liberatus praeeuntis, & evaginato gladio 

 dextra levaque Turcos caedentis. Sed cum successu ipso 

 truculentior, alacritate nimia procurreret, ensis manu ex- 

 cidit. Ad quem recolligendum cum se inclinasset, omnium 

 incursu oppressus, vinculis palmas dedit. Inde Baby- 

 loniam (ut aiunt) ductus, cum Christum abnegare nollet, 

 in medio foro ad signum positus, & sagittis terebratus, 

 martyrium consecravit. Edgarus amisso milite regressus, 

 multaque beneficia ab Imperatoribus Graecorum, & 

 Alemannorum adeptus (quippe qui etiam eum retinere 

 progeneris amplitudine tentassent) omnia pro natalis 

 soli desiderio sprevit. Quosdam enim profecto fallit 

 amor patriae, ut nihil eis videatur jucundum, nisi con- 

 suetum hauserint coelum. Unde Edgarus fatua cupidine 

 illusus Angliam rediit, ubi (ut superius dixi) diverso 

 fortunae ludicro rotatus, nunc remotus & tacitus, canos 

 suos in agro consumit. 



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