King Eadwig was forcibly dragged from his bed by the archbishop

In 956, King Eadwig left his coronation banquet to join his future mother-in-law and her companion in his chambers. A text written around the year 1000 by a monk recounts this episode where Abbot Dunstan allegedly forcibly pulled the sovereign to bring him back to the guests. Modern historians believe, however, that this is an invention aimed at dramatizing a simple breach of canon law.