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Family Tree - Æthelstan of Kent. ROYAL FAMILY TREE. Tracing the family history of the English and Scottish Royal Family back over 1000 years
In 850, Æthelstan defeated a Danish fleet off Sandwich in the first recorded naval battle in English history. In 851 Æthelwulf and his second son Æthelbald defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Aclea and, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , "there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to this present day, and there took the victory". [14]
20 de jun. de 2021 · Æthelstan was the eldest son of Æthelwulf and [[Unknown-195122}Osburh]]. He was old enough in 839, when his father succeeded to the kingdom of Wessex, to be made sub-king of Kent, ruling "Kent and the East Saxons and Surrey and South Saxons." So he would have been born before 825, possibly some years earlier.
Æthelstan was born sometime between 893 and 895 AD. His father was King Edward the Elder, the oldest son of King Alfred the Great. His mother was named Ecgwynn and very little is known about her. There is no record of Edward and Ecgwynn being married and Æthelstan’s legitimacy was questioned during his lifetime.
31 de ene. de 2013 · Given the attention paid elsewhere to Æthelstan’s predecessors, it seems curious that Foot does not acknowledge the survival of Æthelred I and his more famous brother, Alfred, at battles in 871, in which the two brothers participated as kings, and in which their Viking opponents gained victory.
Biography. Æthelstan, "King of the Dwellers in Kent, of the East Saxons, of the South Saxons and of Surrey". He was the eldest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, was the King of Kent from 839 under the authority of his father. (See House of Wessex family tree). When Æthelwulf became King of the West Saxons in 839 on the death of his father ...
