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Hace 2 días · Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780300125351; 336pp.; Price: £30.00. Æthelstan might not, to the uninitiated, seem a very likely candidate for a volume in the prestigious Yale English Monarchs series. He lacks the name-recognition associated with a Conquerer or a Confessor, and is not ...
Æthelstan is not mentioned after 851 and presumably died before Æthelwulf went to Rome in 855 as he was not included in arrangements for government of the kingdom during his father's absence. In 853, Ealhhere died in a disastrous defeat of the men of Kent and Surrey by the Vikings, and as Æthelstan is not mentioned as present at the battle he was probably dead by then.
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 ...
Æthelstan (overleden ca. 852) was de oudste zoon van koning Æthelwulf van Wessex. Zijn vader benoemde hem in 839 tot (onder)koning van Kent. In 851 vocht hij bij Sandwich samen met een ealdorman Ealhhere tegen de Vikingen in wat wel de oudst bekende zeeslag in de Engelse geschiedenis wordt genoemd. Vermoedelijk stierf hij kort na deze slag ...
Athelstan (died October 27, 939) was the first West Saxon king to have effective rule over the whole of England. On the death of his father, Edward the Elder, in 924, Athelstan was elected king of Wessex and Mercia, where he had been brought up by his aunt, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians. Crowned king of the whole country at Kingston on Sept ...
In 918, Aethelstan’s father died, and he was succeeded as king by his half-brother, Aethelweard. Aethelstan was sent to live with his aunt in Mercia, where he continued his education and honed his military skills. He also gained valuable experience in governance, as he was appointed by his aunt to serve as the governor of the province of Kent.
King Athelstan is remembered as a great Anglo-Saxon King but perhaps most significantly he is considered by many to be the first King of the English, ending his reign overseeing his extensive kingdom. After his father, King Edward the Elder passed away in July 924, his half-brother Aelfweard was initially recognised as King of Wessex, only to ...
