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Aethelstan of Kent (824-852) was King of Kent from 839 to 852, succeeding Aethelwulf of Wessex and preceding Aethelbert of Wessex. Aethelstan was the eldest son of Aethelwulf of Wessex and Osburh, and, when Aethelwulf became King of Wessex in 839, he appointed Aethelstan to rule over Kent, Essex, Surrey, and Sussex. In 851, he defeated a Viking fleet off Sandwich in the first naval battle in ...
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]
Family Tree - Æthelstan of Kent. ROYAL FAMILY TREE. Tracing the family history of the English and Scottish Royal Family back over 1000 years
31 de ene. de 2013 · Mixed with notions of imperial rule and interests that saw him linked with just about every ruling house in Europe, Æthelstan established an English kingship of an area that can be identified as ‘England’ and for a brief period, through ideological imposition and punitive military campaigns, he achieved something that could be perceived as ‘British’ imperial rule.
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 ...
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.
Egbert. Mother. Redburga. Athelwulf, also spelled Æthelwulf or Ethelwulf ( c. 806 –858) was a West Saxon nobleman. He conquered the territories of Kent, Sussex and Essex for his father in 825. That same year he was appointed the king of Kent. In 839 he succeeded his father as King of Wessex .
