powerful kingdoms, which claimed rights over whole areas and established temporary primacies: Dalriada in Scotland, Munster and Ulster in Ireland. In England, Mercia and later Wessex came to dominate, giving rise to the start of the monarchy. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period the succession was frequently contested, by both the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy and leaders of the settling Scandinavian communities. yahoo poker game of Wight (839–855) ETHELBERHT ALFRED the Great = Ealhswith ETHELBALD (860–866) ETHELRED (871–899) (855–860) (866–871) Ecgwyn = EDWARD THE ELDER= Edgiva (899–924) ATHELSTAN (924–939) Elgiva = EDMUND I EDRED (939–946) (946–955) EDWY Ethelfleda = EDGAR = Elfrida, dau. of Ordgar, Ealdorman of East Anglia (955–959) dau. of (959–975) Ealdorman Ordmaer EDWARD THE MARTYR (975–979) Elfgifu yahoo poker game EADWIG (EDWY) (955-59 AD) On the death of Eadred, who had no children, Eadwig was chosen to be king since he was the oldest of the children in the natural line of the House of Wessex. He became king at 16 and displayed some of the tendencies one could expect in one so young, royalty or not. Historians have not treated Eadwig especially well, and it is unfortunate for him that he ran afoul of the influential